ArticleJournal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN2018
Always on guard: emotion regulation in women with borderline personality disorder compared to nonpatient controls and patients with cluster-C personality disorder.
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- In search of convergent regional brain abnormality in cognitive emotion regulation: A transdiagnostic neuroimaging meta-analysis.Human brain mapping · 2022Pooled it
- Parsing variability in borderline personality disorder: a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies.Translational psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Task-Based fMRI Reveals a Diagnosis-Dependent Amygdala Lateralization in Major Depressive Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, and Comorbidities.Neuroscience bulletin · 2026Article
- The association between habitual emotion regulation, childhood adversity, and cluster C personality disorders symptomatology.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Heart rate and EEG gamma band connectivity in the ventral attention network during emotional movie stimulation in women with high emotion dysregulation.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Brain Activation for Social Cognition and Emotion Processing Tasks in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Meta-Analysis of Neuroimaging Studies.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- Stress and reward in the maternal brain of mothers with borderline personality disorder: a script-based fMRI study.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2024Article
- Emotion Dysregulation in Personality Disorders.Current psychiatry reports · 2023Review
- Borderline Personality Disorder: Updates in a Postpandemic World.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2022Review
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- An fMRI study of cognitive reappraisal in major depressive disorder and borderline personality disorder.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2021Article
- Borderline personality disorder classification based on brain network measures during emotion regulation.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2021Article
- [Neurobiological principles of borderline personality disorder: integration into the ICD-11 model of personality disorders].Der Nervenarzt · 2021Review
- Intimate stimuli result in fronto-parietal activation changes in anorexia nervosa.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundBorderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by emotion dysregulation; however, it is unclear whether this is restricted to negative emotional stimuli or to what degree this is specific to BPD. We investigated neural correlates of hypothesized increased emotional sensitivity and impaired emotion regulation in patients with BPD.
methodsDuring functional MRI (fMRI) scanning, patients with BPD, nonpatient controls and patients with cluster-C personality disorder completed an emotion regulation task, including negative, positive and erotic social pictures.
resultsWe included 55 patients with BPD, 42 nonpatient controls and 24 patients with cluster-C personality disorder in our analyses. Passive viewing of negative stimuli resulted in greater activity in the anterior insula, temporoparietal junction and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in patients with BPD than in nonpatient controls. The increased activity in the anterior insula and temporoparietal junction was also present when patients with BPD viewed positive stimuli. During regulation of negative stimuli compared with passive viewing, nonpatient controls showed greater activity in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, middle temporal gyrus and bilateral inferior parietal lobule. Patients with BPD did not show this increase in activity. LIMITATIONS: Findings cannot be generalized to men, and patients represented a heterogeneous group regarding comorbid diagnoses and medication.
conclusionWhen looking at emotional stimuli, patients with BPD showed a unique pattern of activity, suggesting an increase in brain activity involved in emotion generation. In the case of negative stimuli this is accompanied by increased activity in regulation areas. In contrast, increase of regulation processes seems absent when patients with BPD are explicitly instructed to regulate. Results of diagnosis specificity support a dimensional rather than a dichotomous differentiation between BPD and cluster-C personality disorder regarding emotional sensitivity and emotional regulation of social stimuli.
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