Neural Correlates of the Use of Psychological Distancing to Regulate Responses to Negative Social Cues: A Study of Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 854-863

  Koenigsberg, Harold W ^a,b   Fan, Jin ^a   Ochsner, Kevin N ^c   Liu, Xun ^a   Guise, Kevin G ^a   Pizzarello, Scott ^d   Dorantes, Christine ^a   Guerreri, Stephanie ^a   Tecuta, Lucia ^a   Goodman, Marianne ^a,b   New, Antonia ^a   Siever, Larry J ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive reappraisal; emotion; emotion regulation; fMRI; psychological distancing; social cognitive neuroscience

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BORDERLINE STATE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ADULT; AFFECT; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70349728353     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.06.010     Document Type: Article

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