Increased Prefrontal Cortical Thickness Is Associated with Enhanced Abilities to Regulate Emotions in PTSD-Free Women with Borderline Personality Disorder

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Bruehl, Hannah ^a   Preißler, Sandra ^b   Heuser, Isabella ^a,c   Heekeren, Hauke R ^a   Roepke, Stefan ^a,c   Dziobek, Isabel ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSULA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMORBIDITY; EMOTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORGAN SIZE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84878763839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065584     Document Type: Article

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