Histrionic Personality Disorder (Disorder, Histrionic Personality)

A personality disorder characterized by overly reactive and intensely expressed or overly dramatic behavior, proneness to exaggeration, emotional excitability, and disturbances in interpersonal relationships.

Also Known As:

Disorder, Histrionic Personality; Disorders, Histrionic Personality; Histrionic Personality Disorders; Hysterical Personalities; Personalities, Hysterical; Personality Disorders, Histrionic; Hysterical Personality; Personality Disorder, Histrionic; Personality, Hysterical

Networked: 26 relevant articles (1 outcomes, 3 trials/studies)

Relationship Network

Disease Context: Research Results

Mental Disorders: 24177
- Personality Disorders: 1576
  - Histrionic Personality Disorder: 26
    - Hysteria: 241

Related Diseases

1.	Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
2.	Panic Disorder (Panic Attack)
3.	Major Depressive Disorder (Major Depressive Disorders)
4.	Hysteria
5.	Bipolar Disorder (Manic Depressive Psychosis)

Experts

1.	Carbonetti, Paolo: 2 articles (03/2012 - 03/2012)
2.	Del Casale, Antonio: 2 articles (03/2012 - 03/2012)
3.	Fensore, Claudio: 2 articles (03/2012 - 03/2012)
4.	Girardi, Paolo: 2 articles (03/2012 - 03/2012)
5.	Kotzalidis, Giorgio D: 2 articles (03/2012 - 03/2012)
6.	Milioni, Mara: 2 articles (03/2012 - 03/2012)
7.	Rapinesi, Chiara: 2 articles (03/2012 - 03/2012)
8.	Serata, Daniele: 2 articles (03/2012 - 03/2012)
9.	Tatarelli, Roberto: 2 articles (03/2012 - 03/2012)
10.	Conrad, Erich J: 1 article (01/2017)

Drugs and Biologics

Drugs and Important Biological Agents (IBA) related to Histrionic Personality Disorder:

1.	ethinyl estradiol drug combination norgestimate (Ortho Tri-Cyclen)FDA LinkGeneric 01/01/2017 - "A 34-year-old Caucasian female patient with comorbid major depressive disorder, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, social anxiety, panic disorder, and histrionic personality disorder, with persistent suicidal ideation and distress intolerance, was treated with norgestimate-ethinyl estradiol with improvement in mood, anxiety, and menstrual cramping and with associated diminished suicidal ideation and improved distress tolerance. "
2.	Explosive Agents (Explosives)IBA 03/01/1977 - "Patients with the DSM-II diagnosis of explosive, antisocial, and hysterical personalities would appear to be the best candidates for a trial of lithium."
3.	LithiumIBA 03/01/1977 - "Patients with the DSM-II diagnosis of explosive, antisocial, and hysterical personalities would appear to be the best candidates for a trial of lithium."
4.	Cocaine (Cocaine HCl)IBA 10/30/2015 - "The percentage of patients with comorbid borderline and histrionic personality disorders was higher and the percentage of participants with cocaine use disorder was lower among women compared to men. " 01/01/2009 - "The most prevalent disorders in the cocaine sample were Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder and Dependent Personality Disorder (10% in each case), followed by Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder and Histrionic Personality Disorder (6.7% each). " 11/01/2015 - "AD respondents who used alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, cocaine, and other illicit drug(s) (weighted percentage, 25.3%) manifested the most severe pattern of alcohol consumption, and had significant overrepresentations of major depression, panic, and other anxiety disorders as well as paranoid, schizotypal, borderline, antisocial, and histrionic personality disorders compared with those who used alcohol alone. "
5.	Antipsychotic Agents (Antipsychotics)IBA 02/01/1998 - "Borderline personal disorder or Histrionic Personality Disorder with a tendency to suicide, responds to a depot antipsychotic drug. " 03/01/2012 - "A woman with bipolar disorder I, histrionic personality disorder, and suicidal ideation with repeated suicide attempts, who had been treated for 2 years with mood stabilizers, antipsychotics, and benzodiazepines, received a total of 8 bitemporal-biparietal electroconvulsive therapy sessions. "
6.	BenzodiazepinesIBA 03/01/2012 - "A woman with bipolar disorder I, histrionic personality disorder, and suicidal ideation with repeated suicide attempts, who had been treated for 2 years with mood stabilizers, antipsychotics, and benzodiazepines, received a total of 8 bitemporal-biparietal electroconvulsive therapy sessions. " 01/01/2023 - "We found variable model performance across diagnoses; attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, alcohol use disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, binge eating disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder showed high BAC (0.70 ≤ BAC ≤ 0.82); bipolar disorder, bulimia nervosa, barbiturate use disorder, conduct disorder, somatic symptom disorder, benzodiazepine use disorder, LSD use disorder, histrionic personality disorder, and functional neurological symptom disorder showed low BAC (BAC ≤ 0.59). "
7.	Matrix Metalloproteinases (MMPs)IBA 02/01/1975 - "We attempted to validate the DSM-II diagnosis of hysterical personality and the depression often experienced by such patients by comparing mean Minnesota Multiphasic Personality inventory (MMP) scores of hysterical personality patients with those of paranoid schizophrenic patients and a group with mixed psychiatric diagnoses. "
8.	Illicit Drugs (Recreational Drugs)IBA 11/01/2015 - "AD respondents who used alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, cocaine, and other illicit drug(s) (weighted percentage, 25.3%) manifested the most severe pattern of alcohol consumption, and had significant overrepresentations of major depression, panic, and other anxiety disorders as well as paranoid, schizotypal, borderline, antisocial, and histrionic personality disorders compared with those who used alcohol alone. "
9.	SteroidsIBA 05/01/2003 - "However, the PDQ-R results suggest that this finding was confounded by the personality disorder profile of the steroid users, because steroid users demonstrated Cluster B personality disorder traits for antisocial, borderline, and histrionic personality disorder."
10.	Phosphorus (Red Phosphorus)IBA 11/01/2016 - "The scales of MMPI-2 hysteria and paranoia, are significantly correlated with creatinine, eGFR, serum nitrogen, CRP, 1,25-(OH)2D3, intact parathyroid hormone (iPTH), phosphorus, and cynical and hysterical personality, are correlated with higher relative power of delta (P = 0.016) and theta band (P = 0.016). "

Therapies and Procedures

1.	Therapeutics 09/01/2007 - "The central aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) with a patient presenting with Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD). " 09/01/2007 - "A time series evaluation of the treatment of histrionic personality disorder with cognitive analytic therapy." 01/01/1982 - "Therapy of hysterical personality disorders." 01/01/1981 - "Associations with phenobarbitine therapy and hysterical personality were suggested, but these did not reach statistical significance. " 09/01/1977 - "Briefly described is the long term therapy of two patients with hysterical personality disorders and acting-out behaviour, as examples of one type of the wide variety of character disorders that can be treated, and where the nine year follow up was adequate to ensure that improvement was sustained."
2.	Nursing Care 04/20/1973 - "Nursing care study: hysterical personality."
3.	Intramuscular Injections 01/01/1992 - "Changes in regional cerebral blood flow in brain images with single photon emission computed tomography using technetium-99m hexamethyl-propyleneamine oxime before and after intramuscular injection of haloperidol (0.08 mg/kg) were studied in 5 medicated subjects in their twenties, consisting of 5 schizophrenics and 1 patient with histrionic personality disorder, by a subtraction method of brain images. "
4.	Intradermal Injections 03/01/1990 - "This paper presents a 26-year-old woman with the characteristic features of Gardner-Diamond syndrome: recurrent painful bruises reproducible by intradermal injection of autologous red blood cells, and a "hysterical" personality pattern together with nonspecific multisystem complaints."