| Reduced sensitivity to emotional facial expressions in borderline personality disorder: effects of emotional valence and intensity. | |
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PMID: 23342955 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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A heightened sensitivity towards negative emotional stimuli has been described for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). We investigated whether a faster and more accurate detection of negatively valent information in BPD can be confirmed by means of a visual search task which required subjects to detect a face with an incongruent emotional expression within a crowd of neutral faces. Twenty eight BPD patients and 28 nonpatients were asked to indicate whether a set of schematic neutral faces (3 × 3, 4 × 4 matrices) contained a happy or an angry face. Besides valence, the intensity of the target's emotion was varied in two steps. BPD patients and nonpatients both demonstrated an anger-superiority effect. However, no higher sensitivity towards negative stimuli was observed in BPD compared to nonpatients. BPD patients seem to rely to a stronger extent on controlled, i.e., serial, attention demanding processes when searching more subtle social-emotional information with positive valence. |
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M Hagenhoff; N Franzen; L Gerstner; G Koppe; G Sammer; P Netter; B Gallhofer; S Lis |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Journal of personality disorders Volume: 27 ISSN: 1943-2763 ISO Abbreviation: J. Pers. Disord. Publication Date: 2013 Feb |
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Created Date: 2013-01-24 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8710838 Medline TA: J Pers Disord Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 19-35 Citation Subset: IM |
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