Jul 31, 2019 · People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often have a strong fear of abandonment, struggle to maintain healthy relationships, have very intense emotions, act impulsively, and may...

Comorbid depressive disorder, paranoid personality disorder, and symptoms of social isolation and self-aggression may enhance automatic attention allocation to threatening facial expressions in BPD.

Our results highlight the eye region of the face as crucial to uncovering enhanced mental state discrimination in BPD. This specific social cognitive enhancement may help us to clarify past conflicting findings of FER in BPD, all of which used the entire face.

May 17, 2022 · Being aware of the emotion your face is communicating, known as "transparency estimation," is an important relationship skill. For people with borderline personality disorder, new research...

Nov 30, 2017 · Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a clinical condition characterized by emotional dysregulation and enhanced sensitivity to affective and social cues. In this study we wanted to investigate the temporal-spatial dynamics of spontaneous gaze processing in BPD.

Apr 1, 2021 · 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).

Nov 30, 2017 · This study provides first evidence for an early neural bias toward neutral faces in BPD independent of gaze direction and also suggests the importance of considering basic aspects of social cognition in identifying biological risk factors of BPD.

Feb 16, 2024 · Maladaptive behaviors and interpersonal difficulties in patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) seem connected to biased facial emotion processing. This bias is often accompanied by heightened amygdala activity in patients with BPD as compared to …

Nov 14, 2017 · In the case of low-level negative emotion faces, the research team predicted hypersensitivity to the low-level negative faces. These findings would be consistent with the “negativity bias ”...

Apr 1, 2021 · 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.