الفهرس 
Sleep in adolescent females with borderline personality traits
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Abstract
Background: Previous work has demonstrated that patients with borderline personality disorder have specific sleep architecture, especially regarding their REM sleep. This study aimed at investigating such a hypothesis in an Egyptian female adolescence sample, considering the possible influence of cultural differences. Methods: All night polysomnographic assessments were made for 30 DSM-IV TR diagnosed borderline patients (without co-morbid depression), 30 healthy matched controls. Results: The patient group differed significantly from controls in their sleep profile, especially regarding REM sleep measures Limitation: The limited availability and complexity of the study group being adolescent females with borderline personality disorder has its impact on the study sample size, the difficulty of convincing parents of the participants to consent to sleep more than one night to overcome first night effect. Conclusions: longer REM sleep duration was observed in adolescent females with borderline personality disorder with consequently shorter stage II NREM, shorter REM latency is observed in adolescent females with borderline personality disorder, higher total REM density was observed in non-depressed adolescent females with borderline personality disorder. Adolescent females with borderline personality disorder were subjectively dissatisfied with their sleep quality, REM durations were longer in the first half of the night in adolescent females with borderline personality disorder, severity of borderline personality was not related to the polysomnographic findings