An eye-tracking study of interpersonal threat sensitivity and adverse childhood experiences in borderline personality disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous eye-tracking studies provide preliminary evidence for a hypersensitivity to negative, potentially threatening interpersonal cues in borderline personality disorder (BPD). From an etiological point of view, such interpersonal threat hypersensitivity might be explained by a biological vulnerability along with a history of early life adversities. The objective of the current study was to investigate interpersonal threat hypersensitivity and its association with adverse childhood experiences (ACE) in patients with BPD employing eye-tracking technology.

Methods

We examined a sample of 46 unmedicated, adult female patients with BPD and 25 healthy female volunteers, matched on age and intelligence, with a well-established emotion classification paradigm with ang

SUBMITTER: Seitz KI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7784013 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature