REVIEW article
Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Personality Disorders
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1587778
Borderline Personality : Revisiting its Classification as a Neurodevelopmental Disorder
Provisionally accepted
- GHU Paris Psychiatrie et Neurosciences, Paris, France
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Although borderline personality disorder is classified as a personality disorder, many studies have developed arguments in favor of a neurodevelopmental origin. In order to methodologically advance this new conceptualization of the disorder, we have identified six criteria for inclusion in the diagnostic category of neurodevelopmental disorders and propose to examine the extent to which borderline disorder may meet these criteria, illustrating them with recent studies. Our review allows us to put forward the idea that this pathology could be c o n s i d e r e d a s a l a t e -o n s e t neurodevelopmental disorder, present in childhood but fully manifesting in adolescence, a critical and rather explosive period of the developing brain. Such a perspective could help with early detection and treatment.
Keywords: Borderline Personality Disorder, neurodevelopment, Ethiopathogenesis, childhood, adolescence, Developmental
Received: 04 Mar 2025; Accepted: 03 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Laurini, Strugarek and Rahioui. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Olivier Laurini, GHU Paris Psychiatrie et Neurosciences, Paris, France
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