Frontolimbic brain abnormalities in patients with borderline personality disorder: A volumetric magnetic resonance imaging study

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 163-171

  Tebartz Van Elst, Ludger ^a   Hesslinger, Bernd ^a   Thiel, Thorsten ^a   Geiger, Emanuel ^a   Haegele, Kerstin ^a   Lemieux, Louis ^b   Lieb, Klaus ^a   Bohus, Martin ^a   Hennig, Jürgen ^a   Ebert, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anterior cingulate cortex; Borderline personality disorder; Hippocampus; Orbitofrontal cortex; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN SIZE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLUMETRY;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 0038107922     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(02)01743-2     Document Type: Article

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