What predicts psychosocial functioning in borderline personality disorder? Investigating the association with reflective functioning.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate factors associated with functioning in participants with and without borderline personality disorder (BPD). In particular, we were interested whether mentalizing and related social cognitive capacities, as factors of internal functioning, are important in predicting psychosocial functioning, in addition to other psychopathological and sociodemographic factors.

Method: This is a cross-sectional study with N = 53 right-handed females with and without BPD, without significant differences in age, IQ, and socioeconomic status, who completed semi-structured diagnostic and self-report measures of social cognition.

Internet interventions for perfectionism: a meta-analysis and proposals for the college setting.

ObjectiveSuh et al (2019) found that treatments for perfectionism, even online, reduce perfectionism and concomitant psychopathology. This meta-analysis investigated the efficacy of Internet interventions and psychotherapeutic interventions for perfectionism as potential tools for overburdened college counseling centers where perfectionism is particularly prevalent. : PubMed, MEDLINE, and PsycINFO were searched for relevant treatment studies.

Validation of computerized reflective function: A replication study.

The Reflective Function (RF) Scale is the original validated measure of mentalizing, applied to Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) transcripts. This study aimed to replicate the preliminary validation of Computerized RF (CRF), a computerized text analysis measure of RF. 49 women with borderline personality disorder (BPD;  = 20) and without ( = 29) completed diagnostic interviews and the AAI.

A meta-analysis of treatment as usual for borderline personality disorder.

In the era of evidence-based medicine, "treatment as usual" (TAU) for borderline personality disorder (BPD) is often considered ineffective or even iatrogenic. To evaluate the effects of TAU, this meta-analysis examined published data from the TAU arms of randomized controlled trials of manualized psychotherapies for BPD. Studies were selected through a comprehensive bibliographic search.

Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder: Is Supply Adequate to Meet Public Health Needs?

Objectives: This study aimed to assess the supply of and demand for treatment of borderline personality disorder (BPD) to inform current standards of care and training in the context of available resources worldwide.

Methods: The total supply of mental health professionals and mental health professionals certified in specialist evidence-based treatments for BPD was estimated for 22 countries by using data from publicly available sources and training programs. BPD prevalence and treatment-seeking rates were drawn from large-scale national epidemiological studies.

Clinical significance of optic disc progression by topographic change analysis maps in glaucoma: an 8-year follow-up study.

Aim. To investigate the ability of Heidelberg Retina Tomograph (HRT3) Topographic Change Analysis (TCA) map to predict the subsequent development of clinical change, in patients with glaucoma. Materials.

Glaucoma risk assessment using a non-linear multivariable regression method.

The present research investigates the relationship between the central corneal thickness (CCT), Heidelberg Retina Tomograph II (HRTII) structural measurements and intraocular pressure (IOP) using an innovative non-linear multivariable regression method in order to define the risk factors in future glaucoma development and patient management. The method is implemented to data from ninety-three open angle glaucoma eyes. The results show that in established glaucoma, CCT is significantly associated with HRTII structural measurements (maximum contour depression, cup volume inferotemporally) and IOP.

Multifocal visual evoked potentials in amblyopia due to anisometropia.

Purpose: To investigate multifocal visual evoked potentials (mfVEP) of the amblyopic and fellow eye in amblyopia due to anisometropia.

Methods: We recorded mfVEP in both eyes of 15 anisometropic amblyopic patients and 15 normal control subjects. The responses from the central 7.

The ice pack test in the differential diagnosis of myasthenic diplopia.

Purpose: To investigate the diagnostic value and to establish threshold criteria for the ice pack test as an office preliminary test in the differential diagnosis of myasthenic diplopia in comparison with blepharoptosis.

Design: Prospective, comparative cohort study.

Participants: Eighty-nine patients with a recent onset of diplopia, blepharoptosis, or both were evaluated with orbital cooling in a prospective manner.

New nonlinear multivariable model shows the relationship between central corneal thickness and HRTII topographic parameters in glaucoma patients.

Purpose: In this paper a new nonlinear multivariable regression method is presented in order to investigate the relationship between the central corneal thickness (CCT) and the Heidelberg Retina Tomograph (HRTII) optic nerve head (ONH) topographic measurements, in patients with established glaucoma.

Methods: Forty nine eyes of 49 patients with glaucoma were included in this study. Inclusion criteria were patients with (a) HRT II ONH imaging of good quality (SD < 30 mum), (b) reliable Humphrey visual field tests (30-2 program), and (c) bilateral CCT measurements with ultrasonic contact pachymetry.

Rubeola keratitis: a photographic study of corneal lesions.

Purpose: Detailed description of the morphology of rubeola keratitis lesions is missing from textbooks and published reports. We performed a detailed analysis of rubeola keratitis lesions by using a photographic slit lamp and ophthalmic dyes.

Methods: Thirty-four eyes of 17 male young adult patients with rubeola keratitis were examined.

The prognostic value of visual evoked response latency in the treatment of amblyopia caused by strabismus.

Visual evoked response alterations and especially P100 latency were studied in 60 patents with amblyopia caused by strabismus. Patients were divided in two groups according to the mode of fixation of the strabismic eye. Group A included patients with eccentric fixation, and group B, patients with central fixation of the strabismic eye.

The necessary resection of the levator muscle of the upper eyelid in the operation for congenital blepharoptosis.

The authors comment on the excellent postoperative results obtained in 22 eyes operated on according to the Blaskovics method for congenital blepharoptosis. They discuss the length of the resected part of the levator muscle of the upper lid, the length depending in each case on the degree of the ptosis and on the functional ability of the levator muscle. They arrive at the conclusion that the shortening of the levator muscle must be considerably greater than heretofore advocated by the classical view.