scholarly journals Higher Executive Control and Visual Memory Performance Predict Treatment Completion in Borderline Personality Disorder

2012 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric A. Fertuck ◽  
John Keilp ◽  
Inkyung Song ◽  
Melissa C. Morris ◽  
Scott T. Wilson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Executive Control ◽  
Visual Memory ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Treatment Completion ◽  
Borderline Personality

Autobiographical Memory Impairment in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Quantitative Meta-Analysis Interpreted in Terms of the CaR-FA-X Model

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 818-831 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eszter Beran ◽  
Mara J. Richman ◽  
Zsolt Unoka
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Executive Control ◽  
Memory Impairment ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Effect Sizes

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by impaired functioning of autobiographical memory (AM). We use a quantitative meta-analysis to assess AM performance in adults diagnosed with BPD as compared to healthy controls (HC). Moderator variables included type of autobiographical memory as well as clinical and demographic variables. Large significant deficits were seen in the BPD group in comparison to the HC group. In the BPD group, effect sizes were large for overgenerality, omission, and specific memories, while not significant for recall. Age influenced the performance of the BPD group; in addition, there was a significant interaction between age and specificity of memory. Gender and IQ did not influence memory performance. Our results confirm that BPD patients show impairment in AM. We explain these impairments in terms of the CaR-FA-X model, based on mechanisms of capture and rumination, functional avoidance, and impaired executive control.

Influence of emotional distraction on working memory performance in borderline personality disorder

2012 ◽  
Vol 42 (10) ◽  
pp. 2181-2192 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Krause-Utz ◽  
N. Y. L. Oei ◽  
I. Niedtfeld ◽  
M. Bohus ◽  
P. Spinhoven ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Emotion Dysregulation ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Memory Task ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Dissociative States ◽  
Healthy Participants ◽  
Emotional Distraction

BackgroundEmotion dysregulation, characterized by heightened emotional arousal and increased emotional sensitivity, is a core feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Although current theories emphasize the disruptive potential of negative emotions on cognitive functioning in BPD, behavioral and neurobiological data on this relationship are still lacking.MethodUsing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), neural activity was investigated in 22 unmedicated BPD patients and 22 healthy participants (matched for age, education and intelligence) performing an adapted Sternberg working memory task, while being distracted by emotional (negatively arousing) and neutral pictures from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS).ResultsEmotional distraction was associated with significantly higher activation in the amygdala and decreased activation in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), extending findings of previous studies in healthy individuals. Patients with BPD showed significantly longer reaction times (RTs) along with significantly higher activation in the amygdala and insula during emotional distraction compared to healthy participants, suggesting that they were more distracted by emotional pictures during the working memory task. Moreover, in the group of BPD patients, a significant negative correlation was found between activation in limbic brain regions and self-reports of current dissociative states.ConclusionsOur findings suggest hyper-responsiveness to emotionally distracting pictures in BPD patients that negatively affects working memory performance. This stresses the importance of emotion dysregulation in the context of cognitive functioning. Moreover, our findings suggest that dissociative states have a dampening effect on neural reactivity during emotional challenge in BPD.

scholarly journals Subjective memory complaints and memory performance in patients with borderline personality disorder

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Beblo ◽  
Christoph Mensebach ◽  
Katja Wingenfeld ◽  
Nina Rullkoetter ◽  
Nicole Schlosser ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Subjective Memory Complaints ◽  
Subjective Memory ◽  
Memory Complaints

Emotion-Oriented Coping Style Predicts Self-Harm in Response to Acute Psychiatric Hospitalization

Crisis ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Jacqueline M. Frei ◽  
Vladimir Sazhin ◽  
Melissa Fick ◽  
Keong Yap
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitalization ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Psychiatric Inpatients ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Coping Behaviors ◽  
Self Harm

Abstract. Psychiatric hospitalization can cause significant distress for patients. Research has shown that to cope with the stress, patients sometimes resort to self-harm. Given the paucity of research on self-harm among psychiatric inpatients, a better understanding of transdiagnostic processes as predictors of self-harm during psychiatric hospitalization is needed. The current study examined whether coping styles predicted self-harm after controlling for commonly associated factors, such as age, gender, and borderline personality disorder. Participants were 72 patients (mean age = 39.32 years, SD = 12.29, 64% male) admitted for inpatient treatment at a public psychiatric hospital in Sydney, Australia. Participants completed self-report measures of coping styles and ward-specific coping behaviors, including self-harm, in relation to coping with the stress of acute hospitalization. Results showed that younger age, diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, and higher emotion-oriented coping were associated with self-harm. After controlling for age and borderline personality disorder, higher levels of emotion-oriented coping were found to be a significant predictor of self-harm. Findings were partially consistent with hypotheses; emotion-oriented but not avoidance-oriented coping significantly predicted self-harm. This finding may help to identify and provide psychiatric inpatients who are at risk of self-harm with appropriate therapeutic interventions.

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