An fMRI study of cognitive reappraisal in major depressive disorder and borderline personality disorder.
Víctor De la Peña-ArteagaMercedes Berruga-SánchezTrevor StewardIgnacio Martínez-ZalacaínXimena GoldbergAgustina WainszteinCarolina AbulafiaNarcís CardonerMariana N CastroMirta VillarrealJosé Manuel MenchónSalvador M GuinjoanCarles Soriano-MasPublished in: European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists (2021)
This study identified, for the first time, a shared neurobiological contributor to emotion regulation deficits in MDD and BPD characterized by decreased vlPFC activity, although we also observed disorder-specific alterations. In MDD, results suggest a primary deficit in the strength of prefrontal activations, while BPD is better defined by connectivity disruptions between the vlPFC and temporal emotion processing regions. These findings substantiate, in neurobiological terms, the different profiles of emotion regulation alterations observed in these disorders.