Impulsive adolescents exhibit inefficient processing and a low decision threshold when decoding facial expressions of emotions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a debilitating psychiatric illness whose symptoms frequently emerge during adolescence. Initial studies in adults suggest that the interpersonal difficulties common in BPD may emerge from disrupted processing of social and emotional stimuli. Less is known about these processes in adolescents with BPD symptoms, despite substantial changes in socioemotional processing during this developmental period.

Methods

86 adolescents and young adults with and without BPD symptoms completed an emotional interference task involving the identification of a facial emotion expression in the presence of a conflicting or congruent emotion word. We used hierarchical drift diffusion modeling to index speed of processing and decision boundary. U

SUBMITTER: Schreiber AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11527340 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature