The effectiveness of individual schema therapy in older adults with borderline personality disorder: A multiple-baseline case series design.

Objective: The aim of this study was to explore the effectiveness of schema therapy (ST) in older adults with borderline personality disorder (BPD).

Methods: Multiple baseline case series design with five BPD patients, with a mean age of 66. After a baseline phase with random length, patients received weekly ST sessions for a year, followed by follow-up sessions during 6 months.

The effectiveness of individual schema therapy in older adults with borderline personality disorder: Protocol of a multiple-baseline study.

Background: The treatment of borderline personality disorder (BPD) has been examined extensively in adults up to the age of fifty in the past quarter of a century, but there is still a world to discover in treating BPD in older adults. The aim of the study is to investigate the effectiveness of schema therapy in older adults with BPD.

Methods/design: A multiple baseline design is used in which participants are randomly assigned to baseline length.

Cognitive behavioral therapy for somatic symptom disorders in later life: a prospective comparative explorative pilot study in two clinical populations.

Background: Elderly patients with somatic symptom disorder (SSD) put a great burden on the health care delivery system. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is effective in adults with SSD. However, no studies have been conducted yet into CBT for SSD in later life.

La belle indifférence revisited: a case report on progressive supranuclear palsy misdiagnosed as conversion disorder.

Background: Since the advent of computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging scans, neurological disorders have less often been falsely labeled as conversion disorder (CD). However, misdiagnosis of a neurological disorder as CD still occurs, especially in cases with insidious onset. Misinterpretation of la belle indifférence may contribute to such misdiagnosis.

Association of HLA-B*27 with ankylosing spondylitis in Kurdish patients.

Objective: To investigate the prevalence of human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-B*27 among a healthy Kurdish population and in patients with ankylosing spondylitis.

Methods: The prevalence of HLA-B*27 was investigated in 209 healthy donors recruited from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and in 41 diagnosed ankylosing spondylitis patients. The HLA statuses for the patients and healthy donors were determined by using the low-resolution Olerup SSP HLA typing kits.