ArticleHeliyon2019
Autobiographical memories, identity disturbance and brain functioning in patients with borderline personality disorder: An fMRI study.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Parsing variability in borderline personality disorder: a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies.Translational psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Neural correlates of social cognition in BPD: a review of MRI evidence.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Review
- Aberrant Salience Network Functional Connectivity in Resting-State and Fear-Related Autobiographical Memory Recall in Female Adolescents with Borderline Personality Disorder.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Neural processing of sad and happy autobiographical memories in women with depression and borderline personality disorder.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Identity and Temporal Fragmentation in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Systematic Review.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- Sensory processing sensitivity and social pain: a hypothesis and theory.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Editorial: Affective, Cognitive and Social Neuroscience: New Knowledge in Normal Aging, Minor and Major Neurocognitive Disorders.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- The Impact of Physical Distancing in the Pandemic Situation: Considering the Role of Loneliness and Social Brain.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Detecting Suicide Ideation in the Era of Social Media: The Population Neuroscience Perspective.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Borderline Personality Disorder: Risk Factors and Early Detection.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Self-other distinction and borderline personality disorder features: Evidence for egocentric and altercentric bias in a self-other facial morphing task.Personality disorders · 2021Article
- Early Detection and Outcome in Borderline Personality Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Review
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Identity disturbance is a core feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Autobiographical memory is a process of reflective thinking through which we form links between elements of life and self. It can be considered as an indirect index of identity integration. The present study was aimed to investigate the differences in brain activity patterns between BPD patients with identity diffusion and healthy controls using fMRI. We enrolled 24 BPD patients and 24 healthy controls. Identity integration in patients and controls was assessed with the Identity Disturbance Questionnaire (IDQ) score and was significantly different (p = 0.001). We analysed hemodynamic response in the regions of interest during presentation of resolved and unresolved life events. With reference to the condition "resolved", increased cerebral activity in right anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), right medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC), right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), and bilateral insula was registered in BPD patients compared with controls. In the condition "unresolved", increased brain activity was observed in patients in bilateral ACC, bilateral DLPFC, and right temporo-parietal junction. Hyperactivity in ACC and DLPFC in BPD patients with both conditions (resolved and unresolved contexts) may be due to an inefficient attempt to reconstruct a coherent narrative of life events (resolved or not).
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