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Altered emotion processing circuits during the anticipation of emotional stimuli in women with borderline personality disorder

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Scherpiet, Sigrid, Brühl, Annette B., Opialla, Sarah, Roth, Lilian, Jäncke, Lutz, Herwig, Uwe·2014·European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

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Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is associated with disturbed emotion processing, typically encompassing intense and fast emotional reactions toward affective stimuli. In this study, we were interested in whether emotional dysregulation in BPD occurs not only during the perception of emotional stimuli, but also during the anticipation of upcoming emotional pictures in the absence of concrete stimuli. Eighteen female patients with a diagnosis of BPD and 18 healthy control subjects anticipated cued visual stimuli with prior known emotional valence or prior unknown emotional content during functional magnetic resonance imaging. Brain activity during the anticipation of emotional stimuli was compared between both groups. When anticipating negative pictures, BPD patients demonstrated less signal change in the left dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) and left middle cingulate cortex (MCC), and enhanced activations in the left pregenual ACC, left posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) as well as in left visual cortical areas including the lingual gyrus. During the anticipation of ambiguously announced stimuli, brain activity in BPD was also reduced in the left MCC extending into the medial and bilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Results point out that deficient recruitment of brain areas related to cognitive-emotional interaction already during the anticipation phase may add to emotional dysregulation in BPD. Stronger activation of the PCC could correspond to an increased autobiographical reference in BPD. Moreover, increased preparatory visual activity during negative anticipation may contribute to hypersensitivity toward emotional cues in this disorder.

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Authors
Scherpiet, S., Brühl, A. B., Opialla, S., Roth, L., Jäncke, L., & Herwig, U.
Affiliations
  • University of Zurich (CH)
  • University Hospital Zurich (CH)
  • Universität Ulm (DE)
Corresponding author
Scherpiet, Sigrid
Venue
European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
Published
2013-10-08
Volume
264
Issue
1
Pages
45-60
ISSN
  • 0003-9373 (ISSN-L)
  • 0940-1334
  • 1433-8491
OpenAlex
W2020520370
Cited by
46
References
111
Citations by year
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FWCI
6.67
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (acceptedVersion, other-oa)
  • reroDoc Digital Library (submittedVersion)
  • Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
Funders
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (3200B0)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
Keywords
borderline personality disorder, emotional anticipation, emotional processing, emotional dysregulation, dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, middle cingulate cortex, pregenual anterior cingulate cortex, posterior cingulate cortex, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, visual cortex activation, negative emotional stimuli, cognitive-emotional interaction, autobiographical memory
MeSH terms
Adult, Affective Symptoms, Borderline Personality Disorder, Brain, Brain Mapping, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Middle Aged, Motivation, Oxygen, Photic Stimulation, Psychometrics, Young Adult, Self Report

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