Cortical representation of afferent bodily signals in borderline personality disorder: Neural correlates and relationship to emotional dysregulation

JAMA Psychiatry

Volumn 72, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1077-1086

  Müller, Laura E ^a   Schulz, André ^b   Andermann, Martin ^a   Gäbel, Andrea ^a   Gescher, Dorothee Maria ^a   Spohn, Angelika ^a   Herpertz, Sabine C ^a   Bertsch, Katja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BORDERLINE STATE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DORSAL ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; GERMANY; GRAY MATTER; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEARTBEAT EVOKED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; INTEROCEPTION; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; REMISSION; RESTING STATE NETWORK; SELF REPORT; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; HEART RATE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INTEROCEPTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84946572393     PISSN: 2168622X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2015.1252     Document Type: Article

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