Childhood abuse is associated with structural impairment in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and aggressiveness in patients with borderline personality disorder

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 213, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 18-23

  Morandotti, Niccolò ^a,b   Dima, Danai ^b   Jogia, Jigar ^b   Frangou, Sophia ^b   Sala, Michela ^a,c   Vidovich, Giulia Zelda De ^a   Lazzaretti, Matteo ^a   Gambini, Francesca ^a   Marraffini, Elisa ^a   d'Allio, Giorgio ^c   Barale, Francesco ^a   Zappoli, Federico ^d   Caverzasi, Edgardo ^a   Brambilla, Paolo ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Azienda Sanitaria Locale Alessandria ^*  (Italy)

^d FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Buss Durkee Hostility Inventory; Irritability; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; AGGRESSIVENESS; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; BRAIN SIZE; BUSS DURKEE HOSTILITY INVENTORY; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILDHOOD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHYSICAL ABUSE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEXUAL ABUSE; VENTROLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE; AGGRESSION; ATROPHY; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84878369385     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: 18727506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2013.02.002     Document Type: Article

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