What is it about?
This paper describes a study aimed at testing if patients diagnoses of borderline personality disorder show a different pattern of subjective emotional responses and hormonal responses when they are exposed to ladden material.
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Why is it important?
The results show that these patients are not more reactive to affective stimulus but they exhibit a more sustained negative affect. Their hormonal profiles also reveal a sustained biased pattern of alterations but no a hyperreaction to specific stimulus.
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This study provide with evidences about the abnormalities in the basic psychological processes purportedtly underlying to the aetiology of the borderline personality disorder.
Dr Antoni Sanz
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
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This page is a summary of: Emotional responses to a negative emotion induction procedure in Borderline Personality Disorder, International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, January 2013, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/s1697-2600(13)70002-4.
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