Hypersensitivity in borderline personality disorder during mindreading.

Background: One of the core symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is the instability in interpersonal relationships. This might be related to existent differences in mindreading between BPD patients and healthy individuals.

Methods: We examined the behavioural and neurophysiological (fMRI) responses of BPD patients and healthy controls (HC) during performance of the 'Reading the Mind in the Eyes' test (RMET).

Cognitive reappraisal in trauma-exposed women with borderline personality disorder.

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by emotional dysregulation and a high prevalence of traumatic stress. Recent estimates suggest that 2-6% of non-clinical populations suffer from BPD. Despite this relevance, this is the first study considering the neural mechanisms underlying trauma-history and temporal features of cognitive reappraisal in non-clinical BPD patients using script-driven stimuli.

Cortical inhibition in alexithymic patients with borderline personality disorder.

High levels of alexithymia, a personality trait closely associated with emotion dysregulation, have been found in several psychiatric disorders including borderline personality disorder (BPD). Both BPD and alexithymia have been related to impaired cortical inhibition; however, this relationship has not been tested directly. The aim of the present study was, therefore, to investigate whether cortical inhibition is modulated by alexithymia in BPD.