Stimulus valence, episodic memory, and the priming of brain activation profiles in borderline personality disorder

• Published in: Psychological medicine Vol. 52; no. 16; pp. 4177 - 4187
• Main Authors: Szczepaniak, Morgan, Chowdury, Asadur, Soloff, Paul H., Diwadkar, Vaibhav A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.12.2022
• Subjects: Acknowledgment; Borderline personality disorder; Brain; Brain mapping; Cognition; Cognitive ability; Emotional regulation; Encoding; Episodic memory; Familiarity; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Memory; Mental task performance; Original Article; Personality; Personality disorders; Priming; Repetition; Research subjects; Stimulus; Toxicology; Episodic Memory; Repetition Priming; Borderline Personality Disorder; Negative Valence; Positive Valence

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by instability in affective regulation that can result in a loss of cognitive control. Triggers may be neuronal responses to emotionally valenced context and/or stimuli. 'Neuronal priming' indexes the familiarity of stimuli, and may ca...