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Brigitte Schmidt
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Brigitte Schmidt is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Anger & Borderline personality disorder. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 157 citations.
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Oxytocin and Reduction of Social Threat Hypersensitivity in Women With Borderline Personality Disorder
Katja Bertsch,Matthias Gamer,Brigitte Schmidt,Ilinca Schmidinger,Stephan Walther,Thorsten Kästel,Knut Schnell,Christian Büchel,Gregor Domes,Sabine C. Herpertz +9 more
TL;DR: Borderline patients exhibit a hypersensitivity to social threat in early, reflexive stages of information processing, and oxytocin may decrease social threat hypersensitivity and thus reduce anger and aggressive behavior in borderline personality disorder or other psychiatric disorders with enhanced threat-driven reactive aggression.