Incision and stress regulation in borderline personality disorder: Neurobiological mechanisms of self-injurious behaviour

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 165-172

  Reitz, Sarah ^a   Kluetsch, Rosemarie ^a   Niedtfeld, Inga ^a   Knorz, Teresa ^a   Lis, Stefanie ^a   Paret, Christian ^a   Kirsch, Peter ^a   Meyer Lindenberg, Andreas ^a   Treede, Rolf Detlef ^a   Baumgärtner, Ulf ^a   Bohus, Martin ^a   Schmahl, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGORAPHOBIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BOLD SIGNAL; BORDERLINE STATE; BULIMIA; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSTHYMIA; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GROUP DYNAMICS; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INCISION; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MESENCEPHALON; MIDDLE OCCIPITAL GYRUS; NEUROBIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STRESS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FOREARM; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGY; SURGERY;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOREARM; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84939812740     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: 14721465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.114.153379     Document Type: Article

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