Facial reactions during emotion recognition in borderline personality disorder: a facial electromyography study.

Background: Previous studies have suggested increased sensitivity for emotional facial expressions and subtle impairments in emotion recognition from facial expressions in borderline personality disorder (BPD). It has been proposed that facial mimicry contributes to emotion recognition of and emotional response to facial expressions. This study investigated whether BPD patients differ in facial reactions, emotion recognition and their subjective emotional response to faces showing different emotional expressions.

Severe relapse of multiple sclerosis during plasma exchange treatment.

To describe and treat a relapse of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis occurring during escalating therapeutic plasma exchange for a previous relapse. A 47-year-old woman with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis received plasma exchange as escalating therapy for a severe prolonged steroid-refractory relapse. During plasma exchange the patient developed another relapse with new neurological symptoms.