ArticleBorderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation2022
Pleasant touch perception in borderline personality disorder and its relationship with disturbed body representation.
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- The role of affective touch in mental illness: a systematic review of CT fiber dysregulation in psychological disorders and the therapeutic potential of CT fiber stimulation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
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- Can you feel it? Altered affective touch perception in a transdiagnostic sample of female adolescents with nonsuicidal self-injury.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- Acute, Chronic, and Everyday Physical Pain in Borderline Personality Disorder.Current psychiatry reports · 2024Review
- Brain mechanisms for processing caress-like touch in skin-picking disorder.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2024Article
- Disturbed body schema, perceptual body image, and attitudinal body image in patients with borderline personality disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- I overthink-Therefore I am not: An active inference account of altered sense of self and agency in depersonalisation disorder.Consciousness and cognition · 2022Article
- Tactile Biography Questionnaire: A contribution to its validation in an Italian sample.PloS one · 2022Article
- Social Touch, Social Isolation, and Loneliness in Borderline Personality Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundBorderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by altered perception of affective stimuli, including abnormal evaluation of nociceptive input. However, whether or not perceptual alterations are present for its positive counterpart, i.e. pleasant touch (PT), has not yet been examined.
methodsIn the present study, we applied standardized PT stimuli to the hands of 25 patients with BPD and 25 healthy controls (HC) and compared their perception. We used the affect-modulated acoustic startle response as a physiological correlate of affective processing. We further explored the effect of PT stimulation on dissociative experiences in BPD.
resultsCompared to HC, BPD perceived PT as less pleasant and less intense. The effect on perceived valence of touch was large even after controlling for the effect of reduced perceived intensity of touch (ƞ
conclusionsOur results confirm BPD-associated disturbances in the processing of affective somatosensory stimuli and indicate that not only pain perception but also pleasant touch perception is diminished in BPD. We discuss the role of altered touch perception for BPD psychopathology and its potential role for new treatment approaches.
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