Neural correlates of emotional action control in anger-prone women with borderline personality disorder

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作者
Bertsch, Katja [1 ]
Roelofs, Karin [2 ]
Roch, Paul Jonathan
Ma, Bo [3 ]
Hensel, Saskia [4 ]
Herpertz, Sabine C. [1 ]
Volman, Inge [5 ]
机构
[1] Heidelberg Univ, Ctr Psychosocial Med, Dept Gen Psychiat, Vossstr, D-269115 Heidelberg, Germany
[2] Donders Inst Brain Cognit & Behav, Nijmegen, Netherlands
[3] Heidelberg Univ, Div Expt Radiol, Heidelberg, Germany
[4] Heidelberg Univ, Med Fac Mannheim, Cent Inst Mental Hlth Mannheim, Dept Psychosomat Med, Heidelberg, Germany
[5] UCL Inst Neurol, Sobell Dept Motor Neurosci & Movement Disorders, London, England
来源
JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY & NEUROSCIENCE | 2018年 / 43卷 / 03期
关键词
TESTOSTERONE; AVOIDANCE; BEHAVIOR; CONNECTIVITY; ORGANIZATION; RECOGNITION; INHIBITION; REDUCTION; DIAGNOSIS; CORTISOL;
D O I
10.1503/jpn.170102
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 [神经生物学];
摘要
Background: Difficulty in controlling emotional impulses is a crucial component of borderline personality disorder (BPD) that often leads to destructive, impulsive behaviours against others. In line with recent findings in aggressive individuals, deficits in prefrontal amygdala coupling during emotional action control may account for these symptoms. Methods: To study the neurobiological correlates of altered emotional action control in individuals with BPD, we asked medication-free, anger-prone, female patients with BPD and age- and intelligence-matched healthy women to take part in an approach-avoidance task while lying in an MRI scanner. The task required controlling fast behavioural tendencies to approach happy and avoid angry faces. Additionally, before the task we collected saliva testosterone and self-reported information on tendencies to act out anger and correlated this with behavioural and functional MRI (fMRI) data. Results: We included 30 patients and 28 controls in our analysis. Patients with BPD reported increased tendencies to act out anger and were faster in approaching than avoiding angry faces than with healthy women, suggesting deficits in emotional action control in women with BPD. On a neural level, controlling fast emotional action tendencies was associated with enhanced activation in the antero- and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex across groups. Healthy women showed a negative coupling between the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and right amygdala, whereas this was absent in patients with BPD. Limitations: Specificity of results to BPD and sex differences remain unknown owing to the lack of clinical control groups and male participants. Conclusion: The results indicate reduced lateral prefrontal-amygdala communication during emotional action control in anger-prone women with BPD. The findings provide a possible neural mechanism underlying difficulties with controlling emotional impulses in patients with BPD.
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页数:10
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