Caution should be exercised in obtaining informed consent for research from subjects …

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Clinical research on borderline personality disorder is alarmingly underdeveloped considering the prevalence and costliness of this disease [4,5]. This problem is likely in part related to practical difficulties involved in safely recruiting and treating borderline research subjects. Research in this area must be done. Nonetheless, due to the questions of motivation and voluntariness, caution must be exercised in gaining informed consent from borderline subjects.

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The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests.

Authors' contributions

All work on this manuscript was performed by RD.