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Parpart H, Blass J, Meindl T, Blautzik J, Michl P, Beblo T, Engel R, Reiser M, Falkai P, Moeller HJ, Driessen M, Hennig-Fast K. Two Sides of the Same Coin in Female Borderline Personality Disorder: Self-Reported Guilt and Shame and Their Neurofunctional Correlates. Brain Sci 2024; 14:549. [PMID: 38928549 PMCID: PMC11201834 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci14060549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2024] [Revised: 05/17/2024] [Accepted: 05/24/2024] [Indexed: 06/28/2024] Open
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OBJECTIVE Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) report to be especially prone to social emotions like shame and guilt. At the same time, these emotions seem to play an important role in BPD pathology. The present study aimed to deepen the knowledge about the processes behind shame and guilt in patients with BPD. METHODS Twenty patients with BPD and twenty healthy controls (HCs) took part in an experiment that induced shame and guilt by imagining scenarios during scanning using functional brain imaging. Participants also filled out self-report questionnaires and took part in diagnostic interviews. RESULTS BPD patients reported more proneness to guilt but not to shame than the HCs. There was no difference in the self-reported intensity rating of experimentally induced emotions between the groups. Between-group contrast of neural signals in the shame condition revealed a stronger activation of cingulate and fusiform gyrus for the BPD patients compared to the controls, and a more pronounced activation in the lingual gyrus and cuneus for the HCs. In the guilt condition, activation in the caudate nucleus, the fusiform gyrus, and the posterior cingulate cortex was stronger in BPD patients, while HC showed stronger activations in cuneus, lingual gyrus, and fronto-temporal regions. CONCLUSIONS Differences in the neuro-functional processes between BPD patients and HC were found, even though the two groups did not differ in their self-report of subjective proneness to guilt and emotional intensity of shame and guilt during the experiment. While the HCs may be engaged more by the emotional scenarios themselves, the BPD patients may be more occupied with cognitive regulatory and self-referential processing.
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- Hella Parpart
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, LMU Hospital, 80336 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Universitätsklinikum OWL, 33617 Bielefeld, Germany
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- Institute of Clinical Radiology, LMU Hospital, 80336 Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Clinical Radiology, LMU Hospital, 80336 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, LMU Hospital, 80336 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Universitätsklinikum OWL, 33617 Bielefeld, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, LMU Hospital, 80336 Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Clinical Radiology, LMU Hospital, 80336 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, LMU Hospital, 80336 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Universitätsklinikum OWL, 33617 Bielefeld, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, LMU Hospital, 80336 Munich, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Universitätsklinikum OWL, 33617 Bielefeld, Germany
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Schurz M, Berenz JP, Maerz J, Perla R, Buchheim A, Labek K. Brain Activation for Social Cognition and Emotion Processing Tasks in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Meta-Analysis of Neuroimaging Studies. Brain Sci 2024; 14:395. [PMID: 38672044 PMCID: PMC11048542 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci14040395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2024] [Revised: 04/15/2024] [Accepted: 04/15/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024] Open
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The present meta-analysis summarizes brain activation for social cognition and emotion-processing tasks in borderline personality disorder (BPD). We carried out two meta-analyses to elaborate on commonalities and potential differences between the two types of tasks. In the first meta-analysis, we implemented a more liberal strategy for task selection (including social and emotional content). The results confirmed previously reported hyperactivations in patients with BPD in the bilateral amygdala and prefrontal cortex and hypoactivations in bilateral inferior frontal gyri. When applying a stricter approach to task selection, focusing narrowly on social cognition tasks, we only found activation in prefrontal areas, particularly in the anterior cingulate and ventromedial prefrontal cortex. We review the role of these areas in social cognition in healthy adults, suggesting that the observed BPD hyperactivations may reflect an overreliance on self-related thought in social cognition.
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- Matthias Schurz
- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Sport Science, and Digital Science Center (DiSC), University of Innsbruck, Universitätsstrasse 15, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Sport Science, University of Innsbruck, Universitätsstrasse 15, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Sport Science, University of Innsbruck, Universitätsstrasse 15, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Sport Science, and Digital Science Center (DiSC), University of Innsbruck, Universitätsstrasse 15, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Sport Science, University of Innsbruck, Universitätsstrasse 15, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Sport Science, University of Innsbruck, Universitätsstrasse 15, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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Denny BT, Lopez RB, Wu-Chung EL, Dicker EE, Goodson PN, Fan J, Schulz KP, Ochsner KN, Trumbull J, Lopez MM, Fels S, Galitzer H, Perez-Rodriguez M, Goodman M, Rosell DR, Hazlett EA, McClure MM, New AS, Koenigsberg HW. Training in cognitive reappraisal normalizes whole-brain indices of emotion regulation in borderline personality disorder. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY. COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROIMAGING 2024:S2451-9022(24)00106-X. [PMID: 38641208 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2023] [Revised: 03/08/2024] [Accepted: 03/12/2024] [Indexed: 04/21/2024]
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BACKGROUND Borderline personality disorder is the prototypical disorder of emotion dysregulation. We have previously shown that borderline personality disorder patients are impaired in their capacity to engage cognitive reappraisal, a frequently-employed adaptive emotion regulation strategy. METHODS Here we report on the efficacy of longitudinal training in cognitive reappraisal to enhance emotion regulation in borderline patients. Specifically, the training targeted psychological distancing, a reappraisal tactic whereby negative stimuli are viewed dispassionately as though experienced by an objective, impartial observer. At each of 5 sessions over 2 weeks, 22 borderline (14 Female) and 22 healthy control (13 Female) participants received training in psychological distancing and then completed a widely-used picture-based reappraisal task. Self-reported negative affect ratings and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data were acquired at the first and fifth sessions. In addition to behavioral analyses, we performed whole-brain pattern expression analyses using independently-defined patterns for negative affect and cognitive reappraisal implementation for each session. RESULTS Borderline patients showed a decrease in negative affect pattern expression following reappraisal training, reflecting a normalization in neural activity. They did not, however, show significant change in behavioral self-reports. CONCLUSIONS To our knowledge, this study represents the first longitudinal fMRI examination of task-based cognitive reappraisal training. Using a brief, proof-of-concept design, the results suggest a potential role for reappraisal training in the treatment of borderline patients.
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- Bryan T Denny
- Department of Psychological Sciences, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychological & Cognitive Sciences, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD,USA
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- Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; James J Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; James J Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA.
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Liu Y, Chen C, Zhou Y, Zhang N, Liu S. Twenty years of research on borderline personality disorder: a scientometric analysis of hotspots, bursts, and research trends. Front Psychiatry 2024; 15:1361535. [PMID: 38495902 PMCID: PMC10941281 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1361535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2024] [Accepted: 02/19/2024] [Indexed: 03/19/2024] Open
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Borderline personality disorder (BPD), a complex and severe psychiatric disorder, has become a topic of considerable interest to current researchers due to its high incidence and severity of consequences. There is a lack of a bibliometric analysis to visualize the history and developmental trends of researches in BPD. We retrieved 7919 relevant publications on the Web of Science platform and analyzed them using software CiteSpace (6.2.R4). The results showed that there has been an overall upward trend in research interest in BPD over the past two decades. Current research trends in BPD include neuroimaging, biological mechanisms, and cognitive, behavioral, and pathological studies. Recent trends have been identified as "prevention and early intervention", "non-pharmacological treatment" and "pathogenesis". The results are like a reference program that will help determine future research directions and priorities.
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- Yuanli Liu
- Department of Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China
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- College of Computing & Informatics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Psychology, School of Education, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Information Management, Anhui Vocational College of Police Officers, Hefei, China
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- Department of Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China
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Pape VR, Braun S, Peters S, Stingl M, Tucha O, Sammer G. The riddle of deliberate self-harm: Physiological and subjective effects of self-cutting cues in patients with borderline personality disorder and healthy controls. Personal Ment Health 2023; 17:328-351. [PMID: 37042027 DOI: 10.1002/pmh.1583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2022] [Revised: 02/15/2023] [Accepted: 02/19/2023] [Indexed: 04/13/2023]
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Self-harming behavior is a core symptom of borderline personality disorder. Self-report studies show a correlation between a lack of self-reported negative feelings toward self-cutting cues and the likelihood of future self-destructive behavior. Despite these findings, there has so far been insufficient investigation into the implicit emotional processes evoked by this stimulus type. Forty patients with borderline personality disorder and 35 healthy controls between 20 and 50 years of age were confronted with pictures of self-cutting cues and affective reference pictures. A startle reflex paradigm was used for measuring implicit emotional responses, and the Self-Assessment Manikin was used for subjective responses. In line with previous studies, the patients rated the self-cutting pictures significantly less negatively than healthy individuals. On the physiological level, a significant startle inhibition was observed, indicating an activation of the behavioral approach system. A more detailed analysis showed that this startle inhibition effect was specific to scary pictures, whereas no such effect was observed for bloody wounds and self-cutting instruments. For pleasant standard pictures, in contrast, no startle reflex inhibition and no increase in emotional arousal parameters were found. The data replicate the findings of previous studies, demonstrating a generally diminished emotional reactivity to pleasant stimuli in patients with borderline personality disorder. In addition, a physiological approach reaction to self-cutting pictures was found, especially for the scary pictures. These results might indicate a positive identification with the long-lasting consequences of self-cutting behavior in the patients. Implications for therapy are discussed.
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- Valeska Reichel Pape
- Institute of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Rostock, Gehlsheimer Straße 20, 18147, Rostock, Germany
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- Institute of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Giessen, Klinikstraße 36, 35392, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Giessen, Klinikstraße 36, 35392, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Giessen, Klinikstraße 36, 35392, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Rostock, Gehlsheimer Straße 20, 18147, Rostock, Germany
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- Institute of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Giessen, Klinikstraße 36, 35392, Giessen, Germany
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Flechsig A, Bernheim D, Buchheim A, Domin M, Mentel R, Lotze M. One Year of Outpatient Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Its Impact on Neuronal Correlates of Attachment Representation in Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder Using a Personalized fMRI Task. Brain Sci 2023; 13:1001. [PMID: 37508932 PMCID: PMC10377139 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci13071001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2023] [Revised: 06/22/2023] [Accepted: 06/27/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023] Open
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(1) Background: BPD is characterized by affect dysregulation, interpersonal problems, and disturbances in attachment, but neuroimaging studies investigating attachment representations in BPD are rare. No study has examined longitudinal neural changes associated with interventions targeting these impairments. (2) Methods: We aimed to address this gap by performing a longitudinal neuroimaging study on n = 26 patients with BPD treated with Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and n = 26 matched healthy controls (HCs; post intervention point: n = 18 BPD and n = 23 HCs). For functional imaging, we applied an attachment paradigm presenting attachment related scenes represented in drawings paired with related neutral or personalized sentences from one's own attachment narratives. In a prior cross-sectional investigation, we identified increased fMRI-activation in the human attachment network, in areas related to fear response and the conflict monitoring network in BPD patients. These were especially evident for scenes from the context of loneliness (monadic pictures paired with individual narrative sentences). Here, we tested whether these correlates of attachment representation show a near-to-normal development over one year of DBT intervention. In addition, we were interested in possible associations between fMRI-activation in these regions-of-interest (ROI) and clinical scores. (3) Results: Patients improved clinically, showing decreased symptoms of borderline personality organization (BPI) and increased self-directedness (Temperament and Character Inventory, TCI) over treatment. fMRI-activation was increased in the anterior medial cingulate cortex (aMCC) and left amygdala in BPD patients at baseline which was absent after intervention. When investigating associations between scores (BPI, TCI) and functional activation, we found significant effects in the bilateral amygdala. In contrast, aMCC activation at baseline was negatively associated with treatment outcome, indicating less effective treatment effects for those with higher aMCC activation at baseline. (4) Conclusions: Monadic attachment scenes with personalized sentences presented in an fMRI setup are capable of identifying increased activation magnitude in BPD. After successful DBT treatment, these increased activations tend to normalize which could be interpreted as signs of a better capability to regulate intensive emotions in the context of "social pain" towards a more organized/secure attachment representation. Amygdala activation, however, indicates high correlations with pre-treatment scores; activation in the aMCC is predictive for treatment gain. Functional activation of the amygdala and the aMCC as a response to attachment scenes representing loneness at baseline might be relevant influencing factors for DBT-intervention outcomes.
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- Ariane Flechsig
- Functional Imaging Unit, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, University of Greifswald, 17475 Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Greifswald, 17475 Greifswald, Germany
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Ulm, 89075 Ulm, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Functional Imaging Unit, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, University of Greifswald, 17475 Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Greifswald, 17475 Greifswald, Germany
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- Functional Imaging Unit, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, University of Greifswald, 17475 Greifswald, Germany
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Hall NT, Hallquist MN. Dissociation of basolateral and central amygdala effective connectivity predicts the stability of emotion-related impulsivity in adolescents and emerging adults with borderline personality symptoms: a resting-state fMRI study. Psychol Med 2023; 53:3533-3547. [PMID: 35225192 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291722000101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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BACKGROUND Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is associated with altered activity in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and amygdala, yet no studies have examined fronto-limbic circuitry in borderline adolescents and emerging adults. Here, we examined the contribution of fronto-limbic effective connectivity (EC) to the longitudinal stability of emotion-related impulsivity, a key feature of BPD, in symptomatic adolescents and young adults. METHODS We compared resting-state EC in 82 adolescents and emerging adults with and without clinically significant borderline symptoms (n BPD = 40, ages 13-30). Group-specific directed networks were estimated amongst fronto-limbic nodes including PFC, ventral striatum (VS), central amygdala (CeN), and basolateral amygdala (BLA). We examined the association of directed centrality metrics with initial levels and rates of change in emotion-related impulsivity symptoms over a one-year follow-up using latent growth curve models (LGCMs). RESULTS In controls, ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and dorsal ACC had a directed influence on CeN and VS, respectively. In the BPD group, bilateral BLA had a directed influence on CeN, whereas in the healthy group CeN influenced BLA. LGCMs indicated that emotion-related impulsivity was stable across a one-year follow-up in the BPD group. Further, higher EC of R CeN to other regions in controls was associated with stronger within-person decreases in emotion-related impulsivity. CONCLUSIONS Functional inputs from BLA and vmPFC appear to play competing roles in influencing CeN activity. In borderline adolescents and young adults, BLA may predominate over CeN activity, while in controls the ability of CeN to influence BLA activity predicted more rapid reductions in emotion-related impulsivity.
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- Nathan T Hall
- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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Tonnaer F, van Zutphen L, Raine A, Cima M. Amygdala connectivity and aggression. HANDBOOK OF CLINICAL NEUROLOGY 2023; 197:87-106. [PMID: 37633721 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-821375-9.00002-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/28/2023]
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Neurobiological models propose that reactive aggression is predicated on impairments in amygdala-prefrontal connectivity that subserves moral decision-making and emotion regulation. The amygdala is a key component within this neural network that modulates reactive aggression. We provide a review of amygdala dysfunctional brain networks leading to reactive aggressive behavior. We elaborate on key concepts, focusing on moral decision-making and emotion regulation in a developmental context, and brain network connectivity factors relating to amygdala (dys)function-factors which we suggest predispose to reactive aggression. We additionally discuss insights into the latest treatment interventions, providing the utilization of the scientific findings for practice.
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- Franca Tonnaer
- Department of Research, Ventio Crime Prevention Science Institute, Rijckholt, The Netherlands
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- Department of Conditions for LifeLong Learning, Educational Sciences, Open University, Heerlen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Criminology, Richard Perry University, Berkeley, CA, United States; Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Research, Ventio Crime Prevention Science Institute, Rijckholt, The Netherlands; Department of Developmental Psychopathology, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Department of Research, VIGO Groep, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Common and distinct patterns of gray matter alterations in young adults with borderline personality disorder and major depressive disorder. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2022; 272:1569-1582. [PMID: 35419633 DOI: 10.1007/s00406-022-01405-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2021] [Accepted: 03/25/2022] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Young adults with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) have a relatively high comorbidity rate; however, whether they share a neurobiological basis remains controversial. Although previous studies have reported respective brain alterations, the common and distinct gray matter changes between two disorders are still inconsistent. We conducted a meta-analysis using anisotropic effect size-based algorithms (ASE-SDM) to identify consistent findings from whole-brain voxel-based morphometry (VBM) studies of gray matter volume (GMV) in 274 young adults (< 45 years old) with BPD and 1576 with MDD. Compared with healthy controls, the young adults with BPD showed GMV reduction mainly in the prefrontal cortex including the inferior frontal gyrus and superior frontal gyrus, medial temporal network, and insula, whereas the MDD showed GMV alteration in the visual network (fusiform gyrus and inferior temporal gyrus), sensorimotor network (bilateral postcentral gyrus (PoCG) and right cerebellum) and left caudate nucleus. The GMV differences between these two disorders were concentrated in the left orbitofrontal cortex, cingulate cortex, right insula, and cerebellum. The meta-regression of the MDD group showed a negative association between disease duration and the right middle cingulate gyrus as well as negative associations between depressive symptoms and brain regions of the right cerebellum and the left PoCG. Our results identified common and distinct patterns of GMV alteration between BPD and MDD, which may provide neuroimage evidence for the disorder comorbidity mechanisms and partly indicate the similar and different biological features in emotion regulation of the two disorders. This study was registered with PROSPERO (CRD42020212758).
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Hazlett EA, Goldstein KE, Haznedar MM, McClure MM, Perez-Rodriguez MM, New AS, Goodman M, Govindarajulu U, Kapil-Pair KN, Feinberg A, Smith E, Dolgopolskaia ES. Hyperreactivity and Impaired Habituation of Startle Amplitude During Unpleasant Pictures in Borderline but Not Schizotypal Personality Disorder: Quantifying Emotion Dysregulation. Biol Psychiatry 2022; 92:573-582. [PMID: 35717211 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.04.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2021] [Revised: 03/23/2022] [Accepted: 04/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by greater intensity of reactions to unpleasant emotional cues and a slower-than-normal return of these responses to baseline. Habituation is defined as decreased response to repeated stimulation. Affect-modulated startle (AMS), a translational psychophysiological approach, is mediated by the amygdala and used to study emotion processing in both humans and animals. This is the first study to examine the specificity of habituation anomalies in BPD during passive emotional and neutral picture processing. METHODS A total of 90 participants were studied: patients with BPD (n = 35), patients with schizotypal personality disorder (n = 26; included as a psychopathological comparison group), and healthy control subjects (n = 29). Participants received rigorous clinical assessments, and patients were unmedicated. AMS was examined during a series of intermixed unpleasant, neutral, and pleasant pictures. RESULTS Compared with the other groups, patients with BPD showed greater overall AMS during unpleasant pictures and prolonged habituation of startle amplitude during unpleasant pictures from early to later trials. The groups did not differ in AMS during neutral or pleasant pictures or self-reported picture valence. Among the patients with BPD, prolonged habituation to unpleasant pictures was associated with greater symptom severity and suicidal/self-harming behavior. CONCLUSIONS These findings 1) indicate that abnormal processing of and habituation to unpleasant pictures is observed in BPD but not schizotypal personality disorder, suggesting that these deficits are not simply characteristics of personality disorders in general; 2) are consistent with studies showing deficient amygdala habituation to unpleasant pictures in BPD; and 3) have significant implications for clinical assessment and treatment of BPD, e.g., alternative therapies for BPD such as gradual exposure to unpleasant emotional stimuli or amygdala neurofeedback may aid habituation deficits.
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- Erin A Hazlett
- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York; Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (VISN 2), James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York; Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (VISN 2), James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York; Outpatient Psychiatry, James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York; Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (VISN 2), James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York
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- Center for Biostatistics, Department of Population Health & Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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Möhler E. Personality Disorders and Development. Brain Sci 2022; 12:brainsci12080983. [PMID: 35892424 PMCID: PMC9332276 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci12080983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2022] [Revised: 07/18/2022] [Accepted: 07/19/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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- Eva Möhler
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Saarland University Hospital, G-66421 Homburg, Germany
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Dadomo H, Salvato G, Lapomarda G, Ciftci Z, Messina I, Grecucci A. Structural Features Predict Sexual Trauma and Interpersonal Problems in Borderline Personality Disorder but Not in Controls: A Multi-Voxel Pattern Analysis. Front Hum Neurosci 2022; 16:773593. [PMID: 35280205 PMCID: PMC8904389 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.773593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2021] [Accepted: 01/17/2022] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Child trauma plays an important role in the etiology of Bordeline Personality Disorder (BPD). Of all traumas, sexual trauma is the most common, severe and most associated with receiving a BPD diagnosis when adult. Etiologic models posit sexual abuse as a prognostic factor in BPD. Here we apply machine learning using Multiple Kernel Regression to the Magnetic Resonance Structural Images of 20 BPD and 13 healthy control (HC) to see whether their brain predicts five sources of traumas: sex abuse, emotion neglect, emotional abuse, physical neglect, physical abuse (Child Trauma Questionnaire; CTQ). We also applied the same analysis to predict symptom severity in five domains: affective, cognitive, impulsivity, interpersonal (Zanarini Rating Scale for Borderline Personality Disorder; Zan-BPD) for BPD patients only. Results indicate that CTQ sexual trauma is predicted by a set of areas including the amygdala, the Heschl area, the Caudate, the Putamen, and portions of the Cerebellum in BPD patients only. Importantly, interpersonal problems only in BPD patients were predicted by a set of areas including temporal lobe and cerebellar regions. Notably, sexual trauma and interpersonal problems were not predicted by structural features in matched healthy controls. This finding may help elucidate the brain circuit affected by traumatic experiences and connected with interpersonal problems BPD suffer from.
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- Harold Dadomo
- Unit of Neuroscience, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
- *Correspondence: Harold Dadomo,
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- Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Milan Center for Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy
- Cognitive Neuropsychology Centre, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy
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- Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab – Cli.A.N. Lab, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
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- Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab – Cli.A.N. Lab, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
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- Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab – Cli.A.N. Lab, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
- Centre for Medical Sciences, CISMed, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
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Andermann M, Izurieta Hidalgo NA, Rupp A, Schmahl C, Herpertz SC, Bertsch K. Behavioral and neurophysiological correlates of emotional face processing in borderline personality disorder: are there differences between men and women? Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2022; 272:1583-1594. [PMID: 35661904 PMCID: PMC9653371 DOI: 10.1007/s00406-022-01434-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2021] [Accepted: 05/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Emotional dysregulation is a core feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD); it is, for example, known to influence one's ability to read other people's facial expressions. We investigated behavioral and neurophysiological foundations of emotional face processing in individuals with BPD and in healthy controls, taking participants' sex into account. 62 individuals with BPD (25 men, 37 women) and 49 healthy controls (20 men, 29 women) completed an emotion classification task with faces depicting blends of angry and happy expressions while the electroencephalogram was recorded. The cortical activity (late positive potential, P3/LPP) was evaluated using source modeling. Compared to healthy controls, individuals with BPD responded slower to happy but not to angry faces; further, they showed more anger ratings in happy but not in angry faces, especially in those with high ambiguity. Men had lower anger ratings than women and responded slower to angry but not happy faces. The P3/LPP was larger in healthy controls than in individuals with BPD, and larger in women than in men; moreover, women but not men produced enlarged P3/LPP responses to angry vs. happy faces. Sex did not interact with behavioral or P3/LPP-related differences between healthy controls and individuals with BPD. Together, BPD-related alterations in behavioral and P3/LPP correlates of emotional face processing exist in both men and women, supposedly without sex-related interactions. Results point to a general 'negativity bias' in women. Source modeling is well suited to investigate effects of participant and stimulus characteristics on the P3/LPP generators.
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- Martin Andermann
- Department of Neurology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department for General Psychiatry, Center of Psychosocial Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany ,School of Medicine, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Pichincha Ecuador
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- Department of Neurology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health Mannheim, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department for General Psychiatry, Center of Psychosocial Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department for General Psychiatry, Center of Psychosocial Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany. .,Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Leopoldstr. 13, 80802, Munich, Germany. .,NeuroImaging Core Unit Munich (NICUM), University Hospital LMU, Munich, Germany.
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Hyniewska S, Dąbrowska J, Makowska I, Jankowiak-Siuda K, Rymarczyk K. The Borderline Bias in Explicit Emotion Interpretation. Front Psychol 2021; 12:733742. [PMID: 34975623 PMCID: PMC8715824 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.733742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2021] [Accepted: 10/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Atypical emotion interpretation has been widely reported in individuals with borderline personality disorder (iBPD); however, empirical studies reported mixed results so far. We suggest that discrepancies in observations of emotion interpretation by iBPD can be explained by biases related to their fear of rejection and abandonment, i.e., the three moral emotions of anger, disgust, and contempt. In this study, we hypothesized that iBPD would show a higher tendency to correctly interpret these three displays of social rejection and attribute more negative valence. A total of 28 inpatient iBPDs and 28 healthy controls were asked to judge static and dynamic facial expressions in terms of emotions, valence, and self-reported arousal evoked by the observed faces. Our results partially confirmed our expectations. The iBPD correctly interpreted the three unambiguous moral emotions. Contempt, a complex emotion with a difficulty in recognizing facial expressions, was recognized better by iBPD than by healthy controls. All negative emotions were judged more negatively by iBPD than by controls, but no difference was observed in the neutral or positive emotion. Alexithymia and anxiety trait and state levels were controlled in all analyses.
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- Sylwia Hyniewska
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- *Correspondence: Sylwia Hyniewska,
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- Psychiatric Clinic I, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland
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- Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Department, Medical University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience Lab, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience Lab, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland
- Krystyna Rymarczyk,
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[Pilot Evaluation of a New Treatment Concept for Children to Improve Emotion Regulation and Stress Resilience. START-Kids: Stress-Arousal-Regulation-Treatment for Kids]. Prax Kinderpsychol Kinderpsychiatr 2021; 70:679-698. [PMID: 34898413 DOI: 10.13109/prkk.2021.70.8.679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Emotional Dysregulation is a frequent challenge in clinical child psychiatric contexts. The Stress-Arousal-Regulation-Treatment for Children aged six to twelve (START-Kids, Dixius u. Möhler, 2021a), was developed as low threshold treatment tool for children with emotional dysregulation. The program is based on principles of dialectic behavioral therapy. The present article focuses feasibility and a first evaluation of this innovative treatment tool for emotionally dysregulated children. 23 child psychiatric patients aged six to twelve years took part in this eight weeks program with two group sessions at 60 min per week. Immediately before and after treatment personality functioning was assessed with the Levels of Personality Functioning Questionnaire LoPF-Q E and OPD-KJ2-SF E. There was no drop-out. Significant positive changes could be found after treatment with regard to therapists' and a trend for parent's ratings. Limitations are small sample size and lack of a treatment-as-usual-control group. START-Kids is an innovative program with high amount of feasibility and a positive influence on aspects of personality functions in children. Future studies, specifically a randomized controlled trial of START-Kids is warranted.
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Neukel C, Bertsch K, Wenigmann M, Spieß K, Krauch M, Steinmann S, Herpertz SC. A Mechanism-Based Approach to Anti-Aggression Psychotherapy in Borderline Personality Disorder: Group Treatment Affects Amygdala Activation and Connectivity. Brain Sci 2021; 11:brainsci11121627. [PMID: 34942929 PMCID: PMC8699721 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci11121627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2021] [Revised: 11/30/2021] [Accepted: 12/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Aggression is highly prevalent in borderline personality disorder (BPD). Previous studies have identified specific biobehavioral mechanisms underlying aggression in BPD, threat sensitivity being among them. We composited the mechanism-based anti-aggression psychotherapy (MAAP) in order to target these specific mechanisms, and MAAP was found to be superior to non-specific supportive psychotherapy (NSSP) in reducing aggressive behavior. In the present study, we investigated whether underlying brain mechanisms expected to be involved were affected by MAAP. To this end, n = 33 patients with BPD and overt aggressive behavior (n = 20 in MAAP, n = 13 in NSSP) and n = 25 healthy participants took part in a functional magnetic resonance imaging emotional face-matching task before and after treatment, or at a similar time interval for controls. Overt aggressive behavior was assessed using the overt aggression scale, modified. Results showed a decrease in amygdala activation in response to facial stimuli after MAAP, whereas an increase in amygdala activation was found after NSSP. Furthermore, in the MAAP group, connectivity between amygdala and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex increased from pre- to post-treatment compared to the NSSP group. Hence, the results suggest an impact of MAAP on brain mechanisms underlying the salience circuit in response to threat cues.
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- Corinne Neukel
- Department of General Psychiatry, Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany; (K.B.); (M.W.); (K.S.); (M.K.); (S.C.H.)
- Correspondence:
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- Department of General Psychiatry, Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany; (K.B.); (M.W.); (K.S.); (M.K.); (S.C.H.)
- Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 80802 Munich, Germany
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- Department of General Psychiatry, Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany; (K.B.); (M.W.); (K.S.); (M.K.); (S.C.H.)
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- Department of General Psychiatry, Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany; (K.B.); (M.W.); (K.S.); (M.K.); (S.C.H.)
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- Department of General Psychiatry, Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany; (K.B.); (M.W.); (K.S.); (M.K.); (S.C.H.)
- Institute of Medical Psychology, Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, 68159 Mannheim, Germany;
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- Department of General Psychiatry, Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany; (K.B.); (M.W.); (K.S.); (M.K.); (S.C.H.)
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Zarnowski O, Ziton S, Holmberg R, Musto S, Riegle S, Van Antwerp E, Santos-Nunez G. Functional MRI findings in personality disorders: A review. J Neuroimaging 2021; 31:1049-1066. [PMID: 34468063 DOI: 10.1111/jon.12924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2021] [Revised: 08/11/2021] [Accepted: 08/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Personality disorders (PDs) have a prevalence of approximately 10% in the United States, translating to over 30 million people affected in just one country. The true prevalence of these disorders may be even higher, as the paucity of objective diagnostic criteria could be leading to underdiagnosis. Because little is known about the underlying neuropathologies of these disorders, patients are diagnosed using subjective criteria and treated nonspecifically. To better understand the neural aberrancies responsible for these patients' symptoms, a review of functional MRI literature was performed. The findings reveal that each PD is characterized by a unique set of activation changes corresponding to individual structures or specific neural networks. While unique patterns of neural activity are distinguishable within each PD, aberrations of the limbic/paralimbic structures and default mode network are noted across several of them. In addition to identifying valuable activation patterns, this review reveals a void in research pertaining to paranoid, schizoid, histrionic, narcissistic, and dependent PDs. By delineating patterns in PD neuropathology, we can more effectively direct future research efforts toward enhancing objective diagnostic techniques and developing targeted treatment modalities. Furthermore, understanding why patients are manifesting certain symptoms can advance clinical awareness and improve patient outcomes.
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- Oskar Zarnowski
- Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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- Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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- Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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- Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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- Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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- West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, Lewisburg, West Virginia, USA
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- University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center, Radiology Department, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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De la Peña-Arteaga V, Berruga-Sánchez M, Steward T, Martínez-Zalacaín I, Goldberg X, Wainsztein A, Abulafia C, Cardoner N, Castro MN, Villarreal M, Menchón JM, Guinjoan SM, Soriano-Mas C. An fMRI study of cognitive reappraisal in major depressive disorder and borderline personality disorder. Eur Psychiatry 2021; 64:e56. [PMID: 34465401 PMCID: PMC8516744 DOI: 10.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.2231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2021] [Revised: 08/22/2021] [Accepted: 08/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND One common denominator to the clinical phenotypes of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) is emotion regulation impairment. Although these two conditions have been extensively studied separately, it remains unclear whether their emotion regulation impairments are underpinned by shared or distinct neurobiological alterations. METHODS We contrasted the neural correlates of negative emotion regulation across an adult sample of BPD patients (n = 19), MDD patients (n = 20), and healthy controls (HCs; n = 19). Emotion regulation was assessed using an established functional magnetic resonance imaging cognitive reappraisal paradigm. We assessed both task-related activations and modulations of interregional connectivity. RESULTS When compared to HCs, patients with BPD and MDD displayed homologous decreased activation in the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vlPFC) during cognitive reappraisal. In addition, the MDD group presented decreased activations in other prefrontal areas (i.e., left dorsolateral and bilateral orbitofrontal cortices), while the BPD group was characterized by a more extended pattern of alteration in the connectivity between the vlPFC and cortices of the visual ventral stream during reappraisal. CONCLUSIONS This study identified, for the first time, a shared neurobiological contributor to emotion regulation deficits in MDD and BPD characterized by decreased vlPFC activity, although we also observed disorder-specific alterations. In MDD, results suggest a primary deficit in the strength of prefrontal activations, while BPD is better defined by connectivity disruptions between the vlPFC and temporal emotion processing regions. These findings substantiate, in neurobiological terms, the different profiles of emotion regulation alterations observed in these disorders.
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- Víctor De la Peña-Arteaga
- Psychiatry and Mental Health Group, Neuroscience Program, Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
- Department of Clinical Sciences, School of Medicine, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
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- Psychiatry and Mental Health Group, Neuroscience Program, Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
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- Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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- Psychiatry and Mental Health Group, Neuroscience Program, Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
- Department of Clinical Sciences, School of Medicine, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
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- Mental Health Department, Unitat de Neurociència Traslacional, Parc Tauli University Hospital, Institut d’Investigació i Innovació Sanitària Parc Taulí (I3PT), Sabadell, Spain
- Network Center for Biomedical Research on Mental Health (CIBERSAM), Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain
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- Consejo Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Grupo de Investigación en Neurociencias Aplicadas a las Alteraciones de la Conducta (Grupo INAAC), Instituto de Neurociencias FLENI-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Departamento de Salud Mental, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Católica Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Consejo Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Grupo de Investigación en Neurociencias Aplicadas a las Alteraciones de la Conducta (Grupo INAAC), Instituto de Neurociencias FLENI-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Mental Health Department, Unitat de Neurociència Traslacional, Parc Tauli University Hospital, Institut d’Investigació i Innovació Sanitària Parc Taulí (I3PT), Sabadell, Spain
- Network Center for Biomedical Research on Mental Health (CIBERSAM), Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain
- Department of Psychiatry and Forensic Medicine, School of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain
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- Consejo Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Grupo de Investigación en Neurociencias Aplicadas a las Alteraciones de la Conducta (Grupo INAAC), Instituto de Neurociencias FLENI-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Department of Physiology and Department of Mental Health, Medicine School, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Consejo Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Grupo de Investigación en Neurociencias Aplicadas a las Alteraciones de la Conducta (Grupo INAAC), Instituto de Neurociencias FLENI-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Departamento de Salud Mental, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Psychiatry and Mental Health Group, Neuroscience Program, Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
- Department of Clinical Sciences, School of Medicine, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
- Network Center for Biomedical Research on Mental Health (CIBERSAM), Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain
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- Consejo Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Neurofisiología I, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
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- Psychiatry and Mental Health Group, Neuroscience Program, Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
- Network Center for Biomedical Research on Mental Health (CIBERSAM), Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain
- Department of Psychobiology and Methodology in Health Sciences, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain
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Goldstein KE, Feinberg A, Corniquel MB, Szeszko JR, New AS, Haznedar MM, Goodman M, Chu KW, Tang CY, Hazlett EA. Anomalous Amygdala Habituation to Unpleasant Stimuli Among Unmedicated Individuals With Borderline Personality Disorder and a History of Self-Harming Behavior. J Pers Disord 2021; 35:618-631. [PMID: 33779281 DOI: 10.1521/pedi_2020_34_495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Self-harming behavior (SB) is one of the diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder (BPD). However, it is not exhibited by all individuals with BPD. Furthermore, studies examining the neural correlates of SB in BPD are lacking. Given research showing that BPD patients have difficulty habituating to affective stimuli, this study investigated whether anomalous amygdala activation is specific to BPD patients with SB. The authors used fMRI to compare amygdala activation in BPD patients with SB (n = 15) to BPD patients without SB (n = 18) and healthy controls (n = 32) during a task involving pleasant, neutral, and unpleasant pictures, presented twice. BPD patients with SB demonstrated greater amygdala activity during the second presentation of unpleasant pictures. Results highlight neurobiological differences in BPD patients with and without SB and suggest that anomalous amygdala habituation to unpleasant stimuli may be related to SB.
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- Kim E Goldstein
- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.,Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC VISN 2), James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, New York
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.,Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC VISN 2), James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, New York
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.,Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC VISN 2), James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, New York
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.,Mental Health Patient Care Center, James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.,Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC VISN 2), James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, New York
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- Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC VISN 2), James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, New York
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- Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute, Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.,Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC VISN 2), James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, New York
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Degasperi G, Cristea IA, Di Rosa E, Costa C, Gentili C. Parsing variability in borderline personality disorder: a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies. Transl Psychiatry 2021; 11:314. [PMID: 34031363 PMCID: PMC8144551 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-021-01446-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2021] [Revised: 05/01/2021] [Accepted: 05/14/2021] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Though a plethora of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies explored the neurobiological underpinnings of borderline personality disorder (BPD), findings across different tasks were divergent. We conducted a systematic review and activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analysis on the fMRI studies conducted in BPD patients compared to healthy controls (HC). We systematically searched PubMed and PsychINFO from inception until July 9th 2020 using combinations of database-specific terms like 'fMRI', 'Neuroimaging', 'borderline'. Eligible studies employed task-based fMRI of the brain in participants of any age diagnosed with BPD compared to HC, during any behavioral task and providing a direct contrast between the groups. From 762 entries, we inspected 92 reports full-texts and included 52 studies (describing 54 experiments). Across all experiments, the HC > BPD and BPD > HC meta-analyses did not yield any cluster of significant convergence of differences. Analyses restricted to studies of emotion processing revealed two significant clusters of activation in the bilateral hippocampal/amygdala complex and anterior cingulate for the BPD > HC meta-analysis. Fail-safe N and single study sensitivity analysis suggested significant findings were not robust. For the subgroup of emotional processing experiments, on a restricted number of experiments providing results for each group separately, another meta-analysis method (difference of convergence) showed a significant cluster in the insula/inferior frontal gyrus for the HC > BPD contrast. No consistent pattern of alteration in brain activity for BPD was evidenced suggesting substantial heterogeneity of processes and populations studied. A pattern of amygdala dysfunction emerged across emotion processing tasks, indicating a potential pathophysiological mechanism that could be transdiagnostic.
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- Giorgia Degasperi
- Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- IRCCS Mondino Foundation, Pavia, Italy
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- Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
- Padova Neuroscience Center, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
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Wrege JS, Ruocco AC, Carcone D, Lang UE, Lee ACH, Walter M. Facial Emotion Perception in Borderline Personality Disorder: Differential Neural Activation to Ambiguous and Threatening Expressions and Links to Impairments in Self and Interpersonal Functioning. J Affect Disord 2021; 284:126-135. [PMID: 33592431 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2021.01.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2020] [Revised: 12/15/2020] [Accepted: 01/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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BACKGROUND Many individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) perceive emotional expressions in faces intended to convey no emotion and display a heightened sensitivity to facial expressions conveying threat, such as fear. In BPD, the amygdala activates in response to ambiguous and threatening facial expressions, although the differential sensitivity of this brain region to higher and lower intensities of fearful expressions and the relationship of this neural activity to personality impairments have not yet been investigated. METHODS In the present study, we examined brain activation during an implicit facial emotion task with neutral faces and fearful expressions displayed at 50% and 100% intensity in patients with BPD (n=45) and healthy controls (HC; n=25). RESULTS On neutral faces, higher brain activation was found in BPD compared to HC in the right temporal pole, amygdala, hippocampus, pallidum, and orbitofrontal cortex, whereas no significant whole-brain group differences were observed for either intensity of fearful expressions. A region-of-interest analysis focused on the amygdala-hippocampal complex showed greater activation for neutral and 50%-intensity fearful faces in BPD. Severity of personality impairment in the domains of empathy and identity were associated with higher precuneus activity during neutral and 100%-fearful face processing. LIMITATIONS Brain activation differences of this naturalistic severely ill inpatient sample may be influenced by comorbid Axis-I disorders often seen in samples of BPD. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest a heightened amygdala-hippocampal response to neutral faces and moderate-intensity fearful expressions in BPD, while self and interpersonal impairments are associated with task-based activations in regions implicated in self-referential processes.
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- Johannes S Wrege
- Department of Psychiatry (UPK), University of Basel, University Psychiatric Clinics of Basel, Wilhelm Klein-Strasse 27, CH-4002 Switzerland.
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- Department of Psychology (Scarborough), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychology (Scarborough), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry (UPK), University of Basel, University Psychiatric Clinics of Basel, Wilhelm Klein-Strasse 27, CH-4002 Switzerland
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- Department of Psychology (Scarborough), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry (UPK), University of Basel, University Psychiatric Clinics of Basel, Wilhelm Klein-Strasse 27, CH-4002 Switzerland
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Aberrant functional connectivity profiles of brain regions associated with salience and reward processing in female patients with borderline personality disorder. Brain Imaging Behav 2021; 14:485-495. [PMID: 30847803 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-019-00065-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Recent resting-state functional connectivity studies have shown significant group differences in several networks between patients suffering from borderline personality disorder (BPD) and healthy controls. However, reliable and consistent findings have not been reported yet. Several methodological factors might be responsible for the discrepant findings, including the heterogeneity of patient samples in terms of symptom severity. In the current study, we combined investigations of the whole-brain resting-state functional connectivity patterns of BPD patients with seed-based connectivity measures and then computed the correlation of connectivity measures with borderline symptom severity. Correlation-based connectivity analysis was performed on resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from 26 female BPD patients and 26 healthy controls. Increased intrinsic connectivity was found in clusters involving part of the caudate nucleus and the left insula in the patient group, indicating greater integration of each region. Further seed-based connectivity analyses revealed that with the caudate seed, the patient data exhibited an increased resting-state functional connectivity in the bilateral ventral striatum and the midline prefrontal regions extending to the ACC, a network associated with reward processing. The left insula seed showed significantly increased connectivity with the bilateral fronto-orbital/insula, the inferior parietal lobule and the mid-cingulate cortex, a network involved in attention and salience encoding, in the patient population. Moreover, symptom severity, as assessed with the BSL-95 outside the scanner, was negatively correlated with the coupling of the insula and the striatum in the BPD group. Overall, an increased functional connectivity within two large-scale circuitries underlying reward and salience processing was evident in patients, as compared to healthy participants. When correlated with borderline symptom severity, a reduced connectivity between key regions belonging to the reward system and salience network was observed in the patients. These findings may be helpful for facilitating further understanding of the potential mechanisms underlying the BPD pathophysiology and thereby delineate potential treatment targets.
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Ferber SG, Hazani R, Shoval G, Weller A. Targeting the Endocannabinoid System in Borderline Personality Disorder: Corticolimbic and Hypothalamic Perspectives. Curr Neuropharmacol 2021; 19:360-371. [PMID: 32351183 PMCID: PMC8033970 DOI: 10.2174/1570159x18666200429234430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2020] [Revised: 04/09/2020] [Accepted: 04/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a chronic debilitating psychiatric disorder characterized mainly by emotional instability, chaotic interpersonal relationships, cognitive disturbance (e.g., dissociation and suicidal thoughts) and maladaptive behaviors. BPD has a high rate of comorbidity with other mental disorders and a high burden on society. In this review, we focused on two compromised brain regions in BPD - the hypothalamus and the corticolimbic system, emphasizing the involvement and potential contribution of the endocannabinoid system (ECS) to improvement in symptoms and coping. The hypothalamus-regulated endocrine axes (hypothalamic pituitary - gonadal, thyroid & adrenal) have been found to be dysregulated in BPD. There is also substantial evidence for limbic system structural and functional changes in BPD, especially in the amygdala and hippocampus, including cortical regions within the corticolimbic system. Extensive expression of CB1 and CB2 receptors of the ECS has been found in limbic regions and the hypothalamus. This opens new windows of opportunity for treatment with cannabinoids such as cannabidiol (CBD) as no other pharmacological treatment has shown long-lasting improvement in the BPD population to date. This review aims to show the potential role of the ECS in BPD patients through their most affected brain regions, the hypothalamus and the corticolimbic system. The literature reviewed does not allow for general indications of treatment with CBD in BPD. However, there is enough knowledge to indicate a treatment ratio of a high level of CBD to a low level of THC. A randomized controlled trial investigating the efficacy of cannabinoid based treatments in BPD is warranted.
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- Address correspondence to this author at the Geha Mental Health Center, Petah Tiqva, Israel; Tel: 972-3-925-8440; Fax: 972-3-925-8276;, E-mail:
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Bozzatello P, Rocca P, Baldassarri L, Bosia M, Bellino S. The Role of Trauma in Early Onset Borderline Personality Disorder: A Biopsychosocial Perspective. Front Psychiatry 2021; 12:721361. [PMID: 34630181 PMCID: PMC8495240 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.721361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2021] [Accepted: 08/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The role of childhood trauma in the development of borderline personality disorder (BPD) in young age has long been studied. The most accurate theoretical models are multifactorial, taking into account a range of factors, including early trauma, to explain evolutionary pathways of BPD. We reviewed studies published on PubMed in the last 20 years to evaluate whether different types of childhood trauma, like sexual and physical abuse and neglect, increase the risk and shape the clinical picture of BPD. BPD as a sequela of childhood traumas often occurs with multiple comorbidities (e.g. mood, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, eating, dissociative, addictive, psychotic, and somatoform disorders). In such cases it tends to have a prolonged course, to be severe, and treatment-refractory. In comparison with subjects who suffer from other personality disorders, patients with BPD experience childhood abuse more frequently. Adverse childhood experiences affect different biological systems (HPA axis, neurotransmission mechanisms, endogenous opioid systems, gray matter volume, white matter connectivity), with changes persisting into adulthood. A growing body of evidence is emerging about interaction between genes (e.g. FKBP5 polymorphisms and CRHR2 variants) and environment (physical and sexual abuse, emotional neglect).
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- Paola Bozzatello
- Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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Mainali P, Rai T, Rutkofsky IH. From Child Abuse to Developing Borderline Personality Disorder Into Adulthood: Exploring the Neuromorphological and Epigenetic Pathway. Cureus 2020; 12:e9474. [PMID: 32874803 PMCID: PMC7455386 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.9474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2020] [Accepted: 07/30/2020] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is one of the most common personality disorders seen in the general population. Among multiple identified risk factors, one of the most influential elements is exposure to an adverse childhood experience in terms of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse. A cascade of neuromorphological and epigenetic changes occurs in response to these childhood stressors, which may have a strong link to the development of BPD. PubMed and Google Scholar were searched for articles relevant to child abuse and the development of BPD. The search was not restricted to any time frame or geographic location. Significant epigenetic and neuromorphological changes are seen with child abuse, contributing to the development of BPD. Chronic stressors lead to hypothalamic-pituitary axis (HPA) activation, releasing cortisol that acts on the prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and hippocampus, producing the behavioral patterns seen in BPD. Overstimulation of gray matter leads to permanent neuromorphological changes, which can be visualized in functional MRI/brain scans. Hypermethylation of messenger ribonucleic acid in various sites suggests the impact of child abuse on the genetic level. Interestingly, the prevalence of BPD is seen equally in both genders but is diagnosed more frequently in females because they tend to be more likely to seek help. Understanding the impact of early age life stressors into adulthood calls for serious focus on early diagnosis and intervention. This implies the need for more studies in patients with BPD with or without any childhood traumatic experience and a better understanding of the changes that occur biopsychologically and genetically in response to trauma.
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- Pranita Mainali
- Psychiatry, Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
- Psychiatry, California Institute of Behavioral Neurosciences & Psychology, Fairfield, USA
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- Pediatrics, California Institute of Behavioral Neurosciences & Psychology, Fairfield, USA
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- Psychiatry, California Institute of Behavioral Neurosciences & Psychology, Fairfield, USA
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Masland SR, Hooley JM. When Trust Does Not Come Easily: Negative Emotional Information Unduly Influences Trustworthiness Appraisals for Individuals With Borderline Personality Features. J Pers Disord 2020; 34:394-409. [PMID: 30742543 DOI: 10.1521/pedi_2019_33_404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Individuals with borderline personality disorder and subclinical borderline features perceive others as untrustworthy (e.g., Fertuck, Grinband, & Stanley, 2013). Trust difficulties may be influenced by emotional state and are formally articulated in the diagnostic criteria for the disorder as temporary state-dependent paranoia. The current study examines the influence of emotional information on trustworthiness appraisals. Seventy-seven community adults, ranging in age from 18 to 70 (M = 31.53, SD = 14.01), with three or more borderline personality disorder symptoms (n = 30) or two or fewer symptoms (n = 47), completed an affective priming paradigm. They were exposed to negative, neutral, or positive information before rating the trustworthiness of unfamiliar faces. Individuals with borderline pathology made more untrusting appraisals regardless of prime, and they were more greatly influenced by negative primes relative to the control group. Findings suggest that biased trustworthiness appraisal is a replicable and consistent finding for individuals with borderline pathology, and that emotional context, even if unrelated to the appraisal at hand, has undue influence.
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Bilek E, Itz ML, Stößel G, Ma R, Berhe O, Clement L, Zang Z, Robnik L, Plichta MM, Neukel C, Schmahl C, Kirsch P, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Tost H. Deficient Amygdala Habituation to Threatening Stimuli in Borderline Personality Disorder Relates to Adverse Childhood Experiences. Biol Psychiatry 2019; 86:930-938. [PMID: 31366446 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2019.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2019] [Revised: 05/20/2019] [Accepted: 06/09/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND Heightened amygdala response to threatening cues has been repeatedly observed in borderline personality disorder (BPD). A previous report linked hyperactivation to deficient amygdala habituation to repeated stimuli, but the biological underpinnings are incompletely understood. METHODS We examined a sample of 120 patients with BPD and 115 healthy control subjects with a well-established functional magnetic resonance imaging emotional face processing task to replicate the previously reported amygdala habituation deficit in BPD and probed this neural phenotype for associations with symptom severity and early social risk exposure. RESULTS Our results confirm a significant reduction in amygdala habituation to repeated negative stimuli in BPD (pFWE = .015, peak-level familywise error [FWE] corrected for region of interest). Post hoc comparison and regression analysis did not suggest a role for BPD clinical state (pFWE > .56) or symptom severity (pFWE > .45) for this phenotype. Furthermore, deficient amygdala habituation was significantly related to increased exposure to adverse childhood experiences (pFWE = .013, region of interest corrected). CONCLUSIONS Our data replicate a prior report on deficient amygdala habituation in BPD and link this neural phenotype to early adversity, a well-established social environmental risk factor for emotion dysregulation and psychiatric illness.
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- Edda Bilek
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelburg University, Mannheim, Germany.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelburg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelburg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelburg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelburg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelburg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelburg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelburg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Psychosocial Medicine, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelburg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelburg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelburg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelburg University, Mannheim, Germany
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Geschwind N, van Breukelen G, Lobbestael J. Borderline personality disorder traits and affect reactivity to positive affect induction followed by a stressor. J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 2019; 65:101497. [PMID: 31299335 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2019.101497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2019] [Revised: 06/25/2019] [Accepted: 06/28/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Affective hyperreactivity is a core feature of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), yet little is known about reactivity of positive affect (PA). Objectives were to explore the relationship between BPD traits and affect reactivity in response to a personalized PA-induction and a subsequent stressor. Patient status (seeking outpatient treatment for personality-related problems; yes/no), depressive symptoms, and age were examined as alternative predictors of affect reactivity. METHODS One hundred and eight females (35 patients) reported on their BPD and depressive symptoms. They completed the Best Possible Self-exercise and a modified Trier Social Stress Task. Trajectories of high and low arousal PA (HAP and LAP) and negative affect (NA) were analyzed with mixed regression modelling. RESULTS Patient status (for HAP) and depressive symptoms (for LAP and NA) predicted affect reactivity better than BPD traits. Patients showed a weaker HAP increase after PA-induction, and a similar HAP decrease after the stressor, compared to non-patients. Higher depressive symptoms predicted stronger improvement of LAP and NA after PA-induction, and less pronounced deterioration of LAP and NA after the stressor, relative to baseline. LIMITATIONS The sample was a convenience sample amplified with outpatients. Future research should (1) use clinical groups, (2) randomize to neutral vs. PA-induction, and (3) continue to differentiate between HAP and LAP. CONCLUSIONS Our results do not support models postulating BPD-specific affective hyperreactivity. HAP and LAP have different trajectories, depending on the degree of psychopathology. The resilience-enhancing potential of a PA-focus in psychotherapy needs further research.
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- Nicole Geschwind
- Department of Clinical Psychological Science, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Methodology and Statistics, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, and CAPHRI Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Psychological Science, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
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Harford TC, Chen CM, Kerridge BT, Grant BF. Borderline Personality Disorder and Violence Toward Self and Others: A National Study. J Pers Disord 2019; 33:653-670. [PMID: 30307827 DOI: 10.1521/pedi_2018_32_361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is associated with violence toward self and others. This study aims to further identify which DSM-5 BPD criteria are independently related to violence, using data from National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions-III, which included a total of 36,309 U.S. respondents ages 18 and older (n = 4,301 for BPD; n = 19,404 for subthreshold BPD). Multinomial logistic regression examined the associations between BPD criteria and violence categories, including suicide attempt (self-directed), violence toward others (other-directed), combined (self-/other-directed) violence, and no violence. In the total population, identity disturbance, impulsivity, and intense anger significantly characterized violence toward others, while avoidance of abandonment, self-mutilating behavior, feelings of emptiness, and intense anger significantly characterized violence toward self. These criteria (except identity disturbance) also significantly characterized combined self- and other-directed violence. Differential associations of the BPD criteria with violence among BPD and subthreshold BPD populations also are discussed.
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- Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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Lamers A, Toepper M, Fernando SC, Schlosser N, Bauer E, Woermann F, Driessen M, Beblo T. Nonacceptance of negative emotions in women with borderline personality disorder: association with neuroactivity of the dorsal striatum. J Psychiatry Neurosci 2019; 44:303-312. [PMID: 30964611 PMCID: PMC6710090 DOI: 10.1503/jpn.180077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Emotion dysfunction is a key symptom in patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and is considered a consequence of dysfunctional emotion regulation (e.g., reduced emotion acceptance). In the present functional MRI (fMRI) study, we investigated the neural correlates of habitual emotion acceptance in individuals with BPD. METHODS Female patients with BPD and female healthy controls passively viewed negative and neutral movie clips of faces during fMRI. We assessed emotion acceptance using the Emotion Acceptance Questionnaire (EAQ). To examine brain activation associated with habitual emotional acceptance of negative stimuli, the EAQ score was included as a regressor of interest in brain data analyses of activation intensity during negative compared with neutral movies. RESULTS We included 20 women with BPD and 20 heatlhy controls in our analysis. Compared with healthy controls, patients with BPD showed significantly more activation in frontostriatal brain regions (i.e., left superior frontal gyrus, right caudate) as well as in the left precuneus, left precentral gyrus, left posterior cingulate cortex and left hippocampus when confronted with negative (v. neutral) stimuli. Patients with BPD reported decreased emotion acceptance compared with healthy controls, and habitual emotion acceptance was inversely associated with activation of striatal areas (i.e., left putamen, left caudate) in patients with BPD. LIMITATIONS Causal conclusions are not possible. Comorbid diagnoses were not excluded, and only female participants were investigated. Stimuli were not rated immediately and may not be generalizable to all negative emotions. We cannot make any statements about other emotion-regulation strategies that may have been applied here. CONCLUSION Data indicate that striatal hyperactivation during the processing of negative stimuli in women with BPD is related to their decreased disposition to accept unpleasant emotional states. Thus, individuals with BPD may benefit from therapy approaches that focus on emotion acceptance in order to normalize emotional reactions.
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- Agnes Lamers
- From the Evangelisches Klinikum Bethel, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Bethel, Research Division, Germany (Lamers, Toepper, Fernando, Schlosser, Driessen, Beblo); the Bielefeld University, Department of Psychology, Beielefeld, Germany (Lamers, Driessen, Beblo); the University of Giessen, Cognitive Neuroscience at the Centre for Psychiatry, Germany (Bauer); and the Mara Hospital, Bethel Epilepsy Center, Bielefeld, Germany (Woermann)
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- From the Evangelisches Klinikum Bethel, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Bethel, Research Division, Germany (Lamers, Toepper, Fernando, Schlosser, Driessen, Beblo); the Bielefeld University, Department of Psychology, Beielefeld, Germany (Lamers, Driessen, Beblo); the University of Giessen, Cognitive Neuroscience at the Centre for Psychiatry, Germany (Bauer); and the Mara Hospital, Bethel Epilepsy Center, Bielefeld, Germany (Woermann)
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- From the Evangelisches Klinikum Bethel, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Bethel, Research Division, Germany (Lamers, Toepper, Fernando, Schlosser, Driessen, Beblo); the Bielefeld University, Department of Psychology, Beielefeld, Germany (Lamers, Driessen, Beblo); the University of Giessen, Cognitive Neuroscience at the Centre for Psychiatry, Germany (Bauer); and the Mara Hospital, Bethel Epilepsy Center, Bielefeld, Germany (Woermann)
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- From the Evangelisches Klinikum Bethel, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Bethel, Research Division, Germany (Lamers, Toepper, Fernando, Schlosser, Driessen, Beblo); the Bielefeld University, Department of Psychology, Beielefeld, Germany (Lamers, Driessen, Beblo); the University of Giessen, Cognitive Neuroscience at the Centre for Psychiatry, Germany (Bauer); and the Mara Hospital, Bethel Epilepsy Center, Bielefeld, Germany (Woermann)
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- From the Evangelisches Klinikum Bethel, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Bethel, Research Division, Germany (Lamers, Toepper, Fernando, Schlosser, Driessen, Beblo); the Bielefeld University, Department of Psychology, Beielefeld, Germany (Lamers, Driessen, Beblo); the University of Giessen, Cognitive Neuroscience at the Centre for Psychiatry, Germany (Bauer); and the Mara Hospital, Bethel Epilepsy Center, Bielefeld, Germany (Woermann)
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- From the Evangelisches Klinikum Bethel, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Bethel, Research Division, Germany (Lamers, Toepper, Fernando, Schlosser, Driessen, Beblo); the Bielefeld University, Department of Psychology, Beielefeld, Germany (Lamers, Driessen, Beblo); the University of Giessen, Cognitive Neuroscience at the Centre for Psychiatry, Germany (Bauer); and the Mara Hospital, Bethel Epilepsy Center, Bielefeld, Germany (Woermann)
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- From the Evangelisches Klinikum Bethel, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Bethel, Research Division, Germany (Lamers, Toepper, Fernando, Schlosser, Driessen, Beblo); the Bielefeld University, Department of Psychology, Beielefeld, Germany (Lamers, Driessen, Beblo); the University of Giessen, Cognitive Neuroscience at the Centre for Psychiatry, Germany (Bauer); and the Mara Hospital, Bethel Epilepsy Center, Bielefeld, Germany (Woermann)
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- From the Evangelisches Klinikum Bethel, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Bethel, Research Division, Germany (Lamers, Toepper, Fernando, Schlosser, Driessen, Beblo); the Bielefeld University, Department of Psychology, Beielefeld, Germany (Lamers, Driessen, Beblo); the University of Giessen, Cognitive Neuroscience at the Centre for Psychiatry, Germany (Bauer); and the Mara Hospital, Bethel Epilepsy Center, Bielefeld, Germany (Woermann)
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Westlund Schreiner M, Klimes-Dougan B, Mueller BA, Nelson KJ, Lim KO, Cullen KR. Neurocircuitry associated with symptom dimensions at baseline and with change in borderline personality disorder. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging 2019; 290:58-65. [PMID: 31302291 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2019.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2019] [Revised: 07/03/2019] [Accepted: 07/04/2019] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious illness associated with chronic suffering and self-injurious behavior. Parsing the relationships between specific symptom domains and their underlying biological mechanisms may help us further understand the neural circuits implicated in these symptoms and how they might be amenable to change with treatment. This study examines the association between symptom dimensions (Affective Disturbance, Cognitive Disturbance, Disturbed Relationships, and Impulsivity) and amygdala resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) in a sample of adults with BPD (n = 18). We also explored the relationships between change in symptom dimensions and change in amygdala RSFC in a subset of this sample (n = 13) following 8 weeks of quetiapine or placebo. At baseline, higher impulsivity was associated with increased positive RSFC between right amygdala and left hippocampus. There were no significant differences in neural change between treatment groups. Improvement in cognitive disturbance was associated with increased positive RSFC between left amygdala and temporal fusiform and parahippocampal gyri. Improvement in disturbed relationships was associated with increased negative RSFC between right amygdala and frontal pole. These results support that specific dimensions of BPD are associated with specific neural connectivity patterns at baseline and with change, which may represent neural treatment targets.
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- Melinda Westlund Schreiner
- University of Minnesota, Department of Psychology, N218 Elliott Hall, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States.
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- University of Minnesota, Department of Psychology, N218 Elliott Hall, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States.
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- University of Minnesota Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, 2450 Riverside Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55454, United States.
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- University of Minnesota Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, 2450 Riverside Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55454, United States.
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- University of Minnesota Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, 2450 Riverside Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55454, United States.
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- University of Minnesota Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, 2450 Riverside Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55454, United States.
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Toward an animal model of borderline personality disorder. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2019; 236:2485-2500. [PMID: 31201478 PMCID: PMC6697600 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-019-05289-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2018] [Accepted: 05/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a pervasive psychiatric disorder characterized by emotion dysregulation, impulsivity, impaired self-perceptions, and interpersonal relationships and currently affects 1-3% of the US population as reported by Torgersen et al. (Arch Gen Psychiatry 58:590-596, Torgersen et al. 2001), Lenzenweger et al. (Biol Psychiatry 62:553-564, Lenzenweger et al. 2007), and Tomko et al. (J Personal Disord 28:734-750, Tomko et al. 2014). One major obstacle to our understanding of the neural underpinnings of BPD is a lack of valid animal models that translate the key known features of the disorder to a system that is amenable to study. OBJECTIVE To summarize the etiology, major symptoms, and symptom triggers of BPD and then propose a blueprint for building an animal model of BPD by choosing key components of the disorder that can be implemented in rodents. RESULTS We identify the role of early life stress and subsequent mild stress in adulthood as contributing etiological factors and the potential use of altered communication between frontal cortices and the amygdala in extinction and habituation, increased impulsivity, dysregulation of the hypothalamic pituitary axis (HPA), and increased neuroinflammation as biological markers of BPD. Building upon these features of BPD, we propose a two-hit animal model that uses maternal abandonment to alter maturation of the HPA axis and mild secondary adult stress to evoke behavioral symptoms such as increased impulsivity and impaired extinction, habituation, and social interactions. CONCLUSION Through exploration of the etiology, symptom presentation, and altered neurological function, we propose an animal model of BPD. We believe that a number of existing animal paradigms that model other mental health disorders should be combined in a unique way to reflect the etiology, symptom presentation, and altered neurological function that is evident in BPD. These model, when compared with available human data, will inform research and treatment in humans for better understanding of systems from the micro-molecular level to more global physiology underlying BPD.
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Soloff PH, Chowdury A, Diwadkar VA. Affective interference in borderline personality disorder: The lethality of suicidal behavior predicts functional brain profiles. J Affect Disord 2019; 252:253-262. [PMID: 30991253 PMCID: PMC6563825 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2019.04.050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2018] [Revised: 01/11/2019] [Accepted: 04/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND Negative affective interference with executive cognition is associated with emotion dysregulation and behavioral dyscontrol in BPD, including a diathesis to suicidal and self-injurious behavior. While clinically well described, the neural basis of affective interference with central executive network function, and resulting suicidal behavior is poorly understood. METHOD In an fMRI study, 23 BPD suicide attempters completed an affectively modified Continuous Performance Task(X-CPT), in which targets and distractors were rendered on Negative, Positive and Neutral Ekman faces, with a Distorted image as a behavioral baseline. Responses to targets were contextualized by the affective context of the face. Lethality Rating Scale scores (LRS) were modeled as the primary regressor of interest on activation peaks, with HamD scores covaried. RESULTS In the Negative vs. Neutral contrast, LRS scores were inversely related to activation in the ACC, parietal precuneus, BG and OFC, with no positive relationships. Results were similar in the Negative vs Positive contrast. In the Neutral vs. Positive contrast, activations were much less extensive, with mixed positive and negative relationships. Contextualizing responses based on the effects of valence decreased participant's ability to distinguish between targets and distracters; however, no differences were observed between valence contexts. fMRI-estimated effects were not confounded by differences in behavioral sensitivity across contexts. LIMITATIONS In this female-only sample, possible gender differences were not addressed. CONCLUSIONS With negative affective interference, increased lethality of suicidal behavior in BPD predicted diminished neural activation in areas critical to executive cognitive function. Therapies diminishing affective interference may reduce risk of suicidal behavior.
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- Paul H. Soloff
- Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pa
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI
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Peter M, Arntz A, Klimstra TA, Faulborn M, Vingerhoets AJJM. Subjective emotional responses to IAPS pictures in patients with borderline personality disorder, cluster-C personality disorders, and non-patients. Psychiatry Res 2019; 273:712-718. [PMID: 31207857 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2019.01.105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2018] [Revised: 12/19/2018] [Accepted: 01/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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According to Linehan (1993), emotion dysregulation is a central feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD). We hypothesized that patients with BPD are emotionally hyperresponsive. For BPD treatment, it is important to evaluate this hypothesis, because, if it is supported, therapeutic interventions could be designed to help patients to better manage hyperemotional reactions. We investigated the subjective reactions (in terms of valence and arousal) of patients with BPD to visual emotional stimuli of the International Affective Picture System (IAPS). We hypothesized that, compared to patients with Cluster-C personality disorders and non-patients, BPD patients would show higher scores on the arousal dimension and higher negative scores on the valence dimension when rating IAPS pictures with varying degrees of arousal and valence. Ratings of valence and arousal for 40 IAPS pictures were collected from 39 borderline personality disorder (BPD), 36 patients diagnosed with Cluster-C personality disorders (PD), and a group of 226 non-patients. Contrary to expectations, BPD patients did not differ from the non-patients. This indicates that their self-report scores do not reflect hypersensitivity. We found that patients with BPD showed lower scores on arousal than Cluster-C PD patients. The scores on valence suggested that Cluster-C PD patients also experienced more positive emotions than BPD patients.
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- M Peter
- Department of Personality Disorders, GGz Breburg, Lage Witsiebaan 4, Tilburg, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht 129, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Developmental Psychology, Tilburg University, Warandalaan 2, Tilburg, the Netherlands
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- Department of Forensic Psychiatry, GGz Breburg, Lage Witsiebaan 4, Tilburg, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Tilburg University, Warandalaan 2, Tilburg, the Netherlands
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Peter M, Arntz A, Klimstra T, Vingerhoets AJJM. Crying in borderline personality disorder patients. Psychiatry Res 2019; 273:100-107. [PMID: 30640050 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2019.01.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2018] [Revised: 01/03/2019] [Accepted: 01/06/2019] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Emotion dysregulation and hyperreactivity are considered central features of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). We assumed that such emotion dysregulation is also reflected in increased crying behavior of these patients and, consequently, hypothesized that BPD patients (N = 62), compared to Cluster C personality disorder patients (Cluster C-PD; N = 25) and non-patients (N = 54), would show higher scores on crying measures. To evaluate crying behavior, we used a set of specially designed tools. Compared to non-patients, BPD patients showed the anticipated higher crying frequency despite a similar crying proneness and ways of dealing with tears. They also reported less awareness of the influence of crying on others. However, Cluster C-PD patients showed a very similar pattern of findings. Overall, our results suggest that the increased crying of BPD patients likely results from environmental factors or the misperception of situations, rather than from stable traits. Remarkable is that the observed discrepancies in crying behavior compared to non-patients seem to be similar for Cluster-C PDs and BPD.
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- Mathell Peter
- Department of Personality Disorders, GGz Breburg, Lage Witsiebaan 4, Tilburg, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht 129, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Developmental Psychology, Tilburg University, Warandalaan 2, Tilburg, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Tilburg University, Warandalaan 2, Tilburg, the Netherlands
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Mirror neuron activations in encoding of psychic pain in borderline personality disorder. NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL 2019; 22:101737. [PMID: 30844640 PMCID: PMC6402375 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2018] [Revised: 02/05/2019] [Accepted: 02/27/2019] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by pronounced emotional instability in interpersonal relations. Previous studies have shown increased activity in the amygdala, an imaging phenotype of negative affect. However, clinical accounts of BPD have drawn attention to deficits in social cognition and their likely role in engendering emotional instability. BPD patients show enhanced sensitivity to other people's emotions, while being less proficient in reading motives and reasons. In the present functional imaging study, we exposed BPD participants to stylized scenes of individuals affected by loss or separation, an issue to which these patients are particularly sensitive. Previously shown to activate the mirror neuron system, these mourning scenes were here also used to assess differential amygdala activity in stimuli of negative valence, but low arousal. Relative to controls, BPD patients were found to activate sensorimotor areas, a part of the mirror neuron system thought to encode basic aspects of the perception of motoric activity and pain. This contrasted with the activity of areas related to more complex aspects of social cognition, such as the inferior frontal gyrus. The amygdala was more active in patients when viewing these scenes, but this effect also showed a strong association with levels of depressiveness and neuroticism. After adjusting for these covariates, differences in amygdala activation were no longer significant. These findings are consistent with models of social cognition in BPD that attribute emotional sensitivity to emotional contagion through the mirror neuron system, in contrast to areas associated with more sophisticated forms of social cognition. These effects were accompanied by increased amygdala reactivity, consistently with the common occurrence of affective symptoms in these patients.
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Flasbeck V, Enzi B, Brüne M. Enhanced Processing of Painful Emotions in Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study. Front Psychiatry 2019; 10:357. [PMID: 31191371 PMCID: PMC6545793 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2019] [Accepted: 05/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Previous research has demonstrated that patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are more sensitive to negative emotions and often show poor cognitive empathy, yet preserved or even superior emotional empathy. However, little is known about the neural correlates of empathy. Here, we examined empathy for pain in 20 patients with BPD and 19 healthy controls (HC) in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, which comprised an empathy for pain paradigm showing facial emotions prior to hands exposed to painful stimuli. We found a selectively enhanced activation of the right supramarginal gyrus for painful hand pictures following painful facial expressions in BPD patients, and lower activation to nonpainful pictures following angry expressions. Patients with BPD showed less activation in the left supramarginal gyrus when viewing angry facial expressions compared to HC, independent of the pain condition. Moreover, we found differential activation of the left anterior insula, depending on the preceding facial expression exclusively in patients. The findings suggest that empathy for pain becomes selectively enhanced, depending on the emotional context information in patients with BPD. Another preliminary finding was an attenuated response to emotions in patients receiving psychotropic medication compared to unmedicated patients. These effects need to be replicated in larger samples. Together, increased activation during the observation of painful facial expressions seems to reflect emotional hypersensitivity in BPD.
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- Vera Flasbeck
- Division of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry and Psychiatric Preventive Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive Medicine, LWL University Hospital Bochum, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany
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- Division of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry and Psychiatric Preventive Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive Medicine, LWL University Hospital Bochum, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany
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- Division of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry and Psychiatric Preventive Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive Medicine, LWL University Hospital Bochum, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany
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This article reviews the most salient neurobiological information available about borderline personality disorder (BPD) and presents a theoretic model for what lies at the heart of BPD that is grounded in those findings. It reviews the heritability, genetics, and the biological models of BPD, including the neurobiology of affective instability, impaired interoception, oxytocin and opiate models of poor attachment or interpersonal dysfunction, and structural brain imaging over the course of development in BPD; and posits that the core characteristic of BPD may be an impairment in emotional interoception or alexithymia.
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Schulze L, Schulze A, Renneberg B, Schmahl C, Niedtfeld I. Neural Correlates of Affective Disturbances: A Comparative Meta-analysis of Negative Affect Processing in Borderline Personality Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY: COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROIMAGING 2018; 4:220-232. [PMID: 30581154 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2018.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2018] [Revised: 10/17/2018] [Accepted: 11/09/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND Borderline personality disorder (BPD), major depressive disorder (MDD), and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are prominent examples of mental disorders with affective disturbances. Notably, all three disorders share a generally heightened negative affect, which is presumably the result of shared neural abnormalities in affective processing. In this meta-analysis, we aimed to identify transdiagnostic and disorder-specific abnormalities during the processing of negative compared with neutral stimuli. METHODS We synthesized neuroimaging findings of affect processing in BPD, MDD, and PTSD and calculated combined coordinate- and image-based meta-analyses. The analysis comprised 70 distinct study samples with a total of 31 unthresholded statistical parametric maps. Twenty-four studies had a focus on BPD (431 individuals with BPD, 436 healthy control subjects [HCs]), 32 studies on MDD (789 individuals with current MDD, 870 HCs), and 14 studies on PTSD (247 individuals with PTSD, 245 HCs). RESULTS Findings showed limbic hyperactivations in BPD and PTSD compared with limbic activation of HCs. In contrast, patients with MDD showed blunted amygdala activation in comparison with that of HCs. Additionally, the calculation of overlapping brain abnormalities in BPD, MDD, and PTSD highlighted transdiagnostic hyperactivation of the right median cingulate gyri and hypoactivation of the right middle frontal gyrus and the right middle occipital gyrus. Finally, disorder-specific comparisons also illustrate unique abnormalities for each mental disorder. CONCLUSIONS The present results support shared and disorder-specific neural abnormalities in patients with affective disturbances.
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- Lars Schulze
- Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim at Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim at Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim at Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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Uscinska M, Bellino S. Treatment-induced brain plasticity in borderline personality disorder: review of functional MRI studies. FUTURE NEUROLOGY 2018. [DOI: 10.2217/fnl-2018-0006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Although neural substrates of symptoms expression in borderline personality disorder (BPD) have been studied extensively, neural mechanisms mediating post treatment amelioration of symptoms remain poorly characterized. Herein present review sheds a critical light on all here-to-date functional MRI findings of brain changes in BPD patients following a treatment with psychotherapy or drugs. Preliminary evidence points to downregulation of neuronal activity within the insula and amygdala, together with differential employment of prefrontal areas, mainly orbitofrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, as well as enhanced functional connectivity between limbic and prefrontal regions induced by dialectical behavioral therapy. Identifying neural circuits behind treatment processes may refine strategies to target specific symptoms, thereby resolving some of the controversies over BPD treatment.
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- Maria Uscinska
- Department of Neurosciences, Centre for Personality Disorders, University of Turin, Via Cherasco 11, 10126, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Neurosciences, Centre for Personality Disorders, University of Turin, Via Cherasco 11, 10126, Turin, Italy
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Fifty years have passed since social anxiety disorder (SAD) was first differentiated from other phobias. In the years since research has largely aligned with the zeitgeist of categorical classificatory frameworks, and has spanned identifying causes, maintenance factors and innovative interventions. Despite significant advances in the field, the capacity to conceptualise SAD as an independent entity is limited given the heterogeneity and dimensionality of diagnostic criteria, high rates of comorbidity, and non-specificity of aetiological mechanisms, maintaining factors and approaches to treatment. The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative was developed in an effort to overcome the inherent limitations posed by descriptive diagnostic systems - particularly in terms of reliability and validity - and in doing so seeks to facilitate research into underlying pathophysiological and behavioural mechanisms that cut across traditional diagnostic boundaries. The RDoC framework is furnished with a 'matrix', which in essence corresponds to a set of research principles that attempt to reconcile neuroscience and psychopathology. This review outlines a rationale for integrating SAD research with the RDoC approach, and offers examples of how future studies may wish to frame hypotheses and design experiments as the field moves towards classifying dimensions of psychopathology through a mechanistic understanding of underlying neurobiological and behavioural processes.
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- Matthew P Hyett
- School of Psychology, Curtin University,Kent Street, Bentley, Western Australia, 6021,Australia
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- School of Psychology, Curtin University,Kent Street, Bentley, Western Australia, 6021,Australia
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Lischke A, Herpertz SC, Berger C, Domes G, Gamer M. Divergent effects of oxytocin on (para-)limbic reactivity to emotional and neutral scenes in females with and without borderline personality disorder. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2018; 12:1783-1792. [PMID: 29036358 PMCID: PMC5714167 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsx107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2016] [Accepted: 09/11/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Borderline personality disorder (BPD) patients’ hypersensitivity for emotionally relevant stimuli has been suggested be due to abnormal activity and connectivity in (para-)limbic and prefrontal brain regions during stimulus processing. The neuropeptide oxytocin has been shown to modulate activity and functional connectivity in these brain regions, thereby optimizing the processing of emotional and neutral stimuli. To investigate whether oxytocin would be capable of attenuating BPD patients’ hypersensitivity for such stimuli, we recorded brain activity and gaze behavior during the processing of complex scenes in 51 females with and 48 without BPD after intranasal application of either oxytocin or placebo. We found divergent effects of oxytocin on BPD and healthy control (HC) participants’ (para-)limbic reactivity to emotional and neutral scenes: Oxytocin decreased amygdala and insula reactivity in BPD participants but increased it in HC participants, indicating an oxytocin-induced normalization of amygdala and insula activity during scene processing. In addition, oxytocin normalized the abnormal coupling between amygdala activity and gaze behavior across all scenes in BPD participants. Overall, these findings suggest that oxytocin may be capable of attenuating BPD patients’ hypersensitivity for complex scenes, irrespective of their valence.
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- Alexander Lischke
- Department of Psychology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.,Department of General Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.,Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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- Department of General Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany.,Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Neurology, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, University of Trier, Trier, Germany
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- Department of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.,Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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Tajima-Pozo K, Yus M, Ruiz-Manrique G, Lewczuk A, Arrazola J, Montañes-Rada F. Amygdala Abnormalities in Adults With ADHD. J Atten Disord 2018; 22:671-678. [PMID: 26964869 DOI: 10.1177/1087054716629213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The suggested neurobiological bases of ADHD focus on the amygdala as a center of emotions processing. Therefore, we hypothesize that patients with ADHD will show an irregular pattern of emotional-related activity of the amygdala region as well as some structural abnormalities. METHOD Nine adult patients with ADHD and nine group-matched healthy volunteers were studied using a 1.5-T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner. Morphometric measurements were obtained manually, and they were later processed and compared. Absolute volumes of several structures and nuclei were calculated with FSL-FIRST. For the functional magnetic resonance examination, a set of two paradigms was prepared, using a block design, incorporating images of the International Affective Picture System (IAPS). The patients were unmedicated at the time of the MRI scan. RESULTS Negative correlation was found between the right amygdala volume and Barrat's impulsivity scores ( r = -.756, p = .018). The age of patients did not turn out to be a significant factor. No significantly higher activation areas were found in patients with unpleasant content images. For the left amygdala, an Region Of Interest (ROI)-based analysis showed moderately higher level of activation in the patients than in the controls with pleasant content images. CONCLUSION Patients with ADHD tend to have smaller amygdala volumes. ADHD patients presented less activation in the area of the left frontal pole than the controls. There was no amygdala activation stated when presenting the pleasant images. Whereas bigger activation of the left amygdala was found in patients while presenting them unpleasant images. These results might suggest that lower emotional processing and less control of impulsivity is associated with dysfunctional amygdala in ADHD patients.
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- 2 Hospital Universitario Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
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- 2 Hospital Universitario Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
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Affective startle modulation in young people with first-presentation borderline personality disorder. Psychiatry Res 2018; 263:166-172. [PMID: 29571079 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2018.02.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2017] [Revised: 12/13/2017] [Accepted: 02/24/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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This study investigated psychophysiological and subjective emotional responses to an affective startle modulation paradigm in first-presentation borderline personality disorder (BPD). Twenty BPD and 20 healthy control participants, aged 15-24 years, viewed a set of standardized pictures with pleasant, neutral, or unpleasant valence, and were instructed to either "maintain" or "suppress" their emotional response to the stimuli. Despite showing markedly higher levels of baseline distress on self-report questionnaires, BPD participants had significantly lower skin conductance responses and showed an absence of the fear potentiated startle response during early picture processing. Both groups showed similar startle responses later in picture processing, and when instructed to "maintain" or "suppress" their emotions. BPD participants were hypo-responsive to aversive stimuli during early processing, and did not react with more intense emotional responses to affective stimuli or show a diminished ability to regulate their responses. These results might be consistent with the finding that hypersensitivity of emotional response in BPD is specific to stimuli with themes of particular relevance to this disorder, such as rejection and abandonment.
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Dick AM, Suvak MK. Borderline personality disorder affective instability: What you know impacts how you feel. Personal Disord 2018; 9:369-378. [PMID: 29461071 DOI: 10.1037/per0000280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The current study examined the role of conceptual knowledge and language in affective instability (AI) associated with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Forty-six females meeting criteria for BPD and 51 nonclinical female control participants without BPD completed a measure of general vocabulary and a semantic similarities task that provided estimates of the degree to which participants weighted information about valence and arousal in their understanding of emotion language. Feelings of valence and arousal were assessed using the Self-Assessment Manikin in response to 62 emotionally evocative images, which was used to derive estimates of AI. BPD status was associated with valence and arousal AI at a bivariate level, but not after controlling for language variables (general vocabulary and semantic valence and arousal foci). Participants with stronger as opposed to weaker vocabularies exhibited less AI, and participants who emphasized arousal more in their conceptual representations of emotions exhibited less AI than those who emphasized it to a lesser degree. With the inclusion of language variables in a regression equation with BPD status predicting AI, semantic arousal focus, but not general vocabulary, was a significant predictor of AI. Consistent with psychological constructionist models of emotion that specify an active role of language throughout the emotion generation process, these findings suggest that language capacity (general vocabulary and the degree to which arousal influences understanding of emotion words) is an important determinant of the AI associated with BPD. (PsycINFO Database Record
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Sarkar S, Clark BS, Deeley Q. Differences between psychopathy and other personality disorders: evidence from neuroimaging. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018. [DOI: 10.1192/apt.bp.107.004747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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SummaryICD-10 and DSM-IV-TR diagnostic guidelines do not list psychopathy as a distinct psychiatric entity. However, there are significant overlaps between psychopathy and DSM-IV-TR Cluster B personality disorders. Neuroimaging studies implicate deficits in structure and function of frontal and limbic regions in this group of personality disorders, while highlighting both distinctions and overlaps between syndromes. Here, these data are reviewed and implications for diagnosis and clinical practice are discussed.
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Eddie D, Bates ME, Vaschillo EG, Lehrer PM, Retkwa M, Miuccio M. Rest, Reactivity, and Recovery: A Psychophysiological Assessment of Borderline Personality Disorder. Front Psychiatry 2018; 9:505. [PMID: 30386267 PMCID: PMC6199964 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2018] [Accepted: 09/25/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Difficulty regulating emotion is a cardinal feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD), yet little is known about the automatic psychophysiological processes involved in this phenotype. Inconsistent findings have emerged from studies that employed limited assessments (e.g., heart rate variability, skin conductance) of autonomic nervous system response to emotional contexts, and compared groups based on the presence or absence of BPD as a categorical diagnosis. This exploratory study assessed a comprehensive set of autonomic nervous system processes in 44 individuals (22 with BPD) at rest, in response to emotionally evocative stimuli, and during a subsequent recovery period. BPD was characterized with a dimensional measure of BPD symptom severity, as a well by categorical diagnosis. At baseline and across experimental tasks, higher heart rate was observed in those diagnosed with BPD compared to controls, and in those expressing greater BPD symptom severity. These effects, however, were fully mediated by differences in physical exercise. In contrast, during recovery from emotional activation, greater symptom severity predicted consistently higher levels of multiple sympathetic and parasympathetic processes compared to lower symptom severity. Overall, these findings suggest that the heart rate elevations sometimes observed in those diagnosed with BPD may be associated with individual and group differences in levels of physical exercise. Results further indicate that adaptive psychophysiological recovery responses following emotional challenge may be disrupted in proportion to BPD symptom severity, independently of exercise. Results highlight the utility of considering lifestyle factors and symptom severity in studies of emotional activation and regulation processes in BPD.
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- David Eddie
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Rutgers University - New Brunswick, Piscataway, NJ, United States
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- Rutgers University - New Brunswick, Piscataway, NJ, United States.,Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, United States
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- Rutgers University - New Brunswick, Piscataway, NJ, United States
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- Rutgers University - New Brunswick, Piscataway, NJ, United States
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Bertsch K, Hillmann K, Herpertz SC. Behavioral and Neurobiological Correlates of Disturbed Emotion Processing in Borderline Personality Disorder. Psychopathology 2018. [PMID: 29539627 DOI: 10.1159/000487363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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One of the core symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is emotion dysregulation, which comprises emotion sensitivity, heightened and labile negative affect, deficient appropriate regulation strategies, and a surplus of maladaptive regulation strategies. Although earlier studies provided some evidence for threat hypersensitivity in terms of a negatively biased perception of other people ("negativity bias") and deficits in the recognition of full-blown anger, i.e., higher error rates and slower reaction times, researchers have only recently started studying effects of interindividual differences (e.g., sex, impulsivity, aggressiveness) and stimulus complexity as well as associations with early adversity, developmental aspects, or the specificity for BPD. Recent data also suggest a deficit in the detection of positive emotions, which needs to be addressed in more detail since it may prevent the patients from recognizing safety signals and from making positive interpersonal experiences. Neurobiologically, threat hypersensitivity has been related to increased and prolonged amygdala responses, while deficient emotion regulation was associated with reduced prefrontal inhibition of the amygdala. First results suggest that these neural alterations may be modulated by psychotherapeutic treatment focusing on emotion regulation.
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Krajniak MI, Pievsky M, Eisen AR, McGrath RE. The relationship between personality disorder traits, emotional intelligence, and college adjustment. J Clin Psychol 2017; 74:1160-1173. [PMID: 29266285 DOI: 10.1002/jclp.22572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2017] [Revised: 09/12/2017] [Accepted: 10/24/2017] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The current study examined the relationship between emotional intelligence, personality disorder traits, and college adjustment. METHOD A sample of 246 first-semester, first-time freshmen (73.6% female, age mean = 18.7, standard deviation = 2.0) at a large university in the Eastern United States completed the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (Petrides, 2009), the Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality-2 (Clark, Simms, Wu, & Casillas, 2014), and the Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire (Baker & Siryk, 1998). RESULTS As predicted, personality disorder symptoms and emotional intelligence were generally related, and both were related to adjustment. Unique patterns of association between traits reflecting personality disorder clusters and emotional intelligence deficits also emerged. Contrary to expectation, however, emotional intelligence did not moderate the relationship between personality disorders and adjustment. CONCLUSION The results suggest an alternative model implicating emotional intelligence as a mediator of the relationship between personality difficulties and college adjustment.
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Zhou Q, Zhong M, Yao S, Jin X, Liu Y, Tan C, Zhu X, Yi J. Hemispheric asymmetry of the frontolimbic cortex in young adults with borderline personality disorder. Acta Psychiatr Scand 2017; 136:637-647. [PMID: 29034964 DOI: 10.1111/acps.12823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/19/2017] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Although the frontolimbic cortex has been implicated in borderline personality disorder (BPD), information about possible asymmetries in this region in patients with BPD is limited. This study aimed to examine whether frontolimbic cortex asymmetries differ between patients with BPD and healthy individuals. METHODS The brains of 30 young adult patients with BPD and 32 healthy control subjects were scanned with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The participants completed self-report scales assessing impulsivity, affect intensity and other psychological variables. Gray matter volume, surface area, and cortical thickness in regions of interest (ROIs), namely anterior insula (AI) and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) were determined and the data were probed for hemisphere-group interactions. RESULTS Relative to controls, patients with BPD had reduced cortical thickness in left ACC and less surface area and gray matter volume in left AI. Significant group-hemisphere interactions were observed for gray matter volume and surface area of AI and for cortical thickness of ACC. Post hoc analysis showed that the BPD patients had greater frontolimbic cortex asymmetry than healthy controls; furthermore, greater asymmetry of AI&ACC correlated with a higher score in attention subscale of Barratt Impulsiveness Scale. CONCLUSION Patients with BPD have greater frontolimbic asymmetry than healthy individuals.
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- Q Zhou
- Center for Studies of Psychological Application, School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Center for Studies of Psychological Application, School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Medical Psychological Center, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.,Medical Psychological Institute, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Medical Psychological Center, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Medical Psychological Center, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Department of Radiology, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Medical Psychological Center, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.,Medical Psychological Institute, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Medical Psychological Center, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.,Medical Psychological Institute, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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