Neural basis of shame and guilt experience in women with borderline personality disorder.

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by instability of affect, emotion dysregulation, and interpersonal dysfunction. Especially shame and guilt, so-called self-conscious emotions, are of central clinical relevance to BPD. However, only few experimental studies have focused on shame or guilt in BPD and none investigated their neurobiological underpinnings.

[Rehabilitation Program for Persons with Relatives Suffering from Dementia: Results of a Longitudinal Observational Study].

Background: Caregiving relatives of dementia patients are exposed to considerable burdens. A multimodal rehabilitation concept which enables the inpatient treatment of caregiving relatives together with the dementia patients was evaluated.

Methods: Questionnaire survey including 121 caring relatives at 3 times of measurement.