Bryan T Denny, Richard B Lopez, E Lydia Wu-Chung, Eva E Dicker, Pauline N Goodson, Jin Fan, Kurt P Schulz, Kevin N Ochsner, Jacqueline Trumbull, Maria Martin Lopez, Samuel Fels, Hayley Galitzer, Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez, Marianne Goodman, Daniel R Rosell, Erin A Hazlett, Margaret M McClure, Antonia S New, Harold W Koenigsberg
BACKGROUND: Borderline personality disorder is the prototypical disorder of emotion dysregulation. We have previously shown that borderline personality disorder patients are impaired in their capacity to engage cognitive reappraisal, a frequently-employed adaptive emotion regulation strategy. METHODS: Here we report on the efficacy of longitudinal training in cognitive reappraisal to enhance emotion regulation in borderline patients. Specifically, the training targeted psychological distancing, a reappraisal tactic whereby negative stimuli are viewed dispassionately as though experienced by an objective, impartial observer...
April 17, 2024: Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging