Emotional vulnerability in borderline personality disorder is cue specific and modulated by traumatization

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 574-582

  Limberg, Anke ^a   Barnow, Sven ^b   Freyberger, Harald J ^a   Hamm, Alfons O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Borderline personality disorder; emotional reactivity; mental imagery; posttraumatic stress disorder; startle responses; trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; REFLEX; SKIN CONDUCTANCE;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CUES; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; JUDGMENT; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STARTLE REACTION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952036976     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.10.024     Document Type: Article

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