ArticleJournal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN2016
Time course of facial emotion processing in women with borderline personality disorder: an ERP study.
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- Remnants and changes in facial emotion processing in women with remitted borderline personality disorder: an EEG study.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2018Article
- Neural correlates of emotional action control in anger-prone women with borderline personality disorder.Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN · 2018Article
- Women in the midluteal phase of the menstrual cycle have difficulty suppressing the processing of negative emotional stimuli: An event-related potential study.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundBorderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by a negative perception of others. Previous studies have revealed deficits and biases in facial emotion recognition. This study investigates the behavioural and electrophysiological correlates underlying facial emotion processing in individuals with BPD.
methodsThe present study was conducted between July 2012 and May 2014. In an emotion classification task, unmedicated female patients with BPD as well as healthy women had to classify faces displaying blends of anger and happiness while the electroencephalogram was recorded. We analyzed visual event-related potentials (ERPs) reflecting early (P100), structural (N170) and categorical (P300) facial processing in addition to behavioural responses.
resultsWe included 36 women with BPD and 29 controls in our analysis. Patients with BPD were more likely than controls to classify predominantly happy faces as angry. Independent of facial emotion, women with BPD showed enhanced early occipital P100 amplitudes. Additionally, temporo-occipital N170 amplitudes were reduced at right hemispherical electrode sites. Centroparietal P300 amplitudes were reduced particularly for predominantly happy faces and increased for highly angry faces in women with BPD, whereas in healthy volunteers this component was modulated by both angry and happy facial affect. LIMITATIONS: Our sample included only women, and no clinical control group was investigated.
conclusionOur findings suggest reduced thresholds for facial anger and deficits in the discrimination of facial happiness in individuals with BPD. This biased perception is associated with alterations in very early visual as well as deficient structural and categorical processing of faces. The current data could help to explain the negative perception of others that may be related to the patients' impairments in interpersonal functioning.
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