Oxytocin and Reduction of Social Threat Hypersensitivity in Women With Borderline Personality Disorder
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...Previous work in noninteractive paradigms, such as Reading the Mind in the Eyes and morphed face challenges, has identified a strong negative attribution bias [reviewed in (19,20)]....
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...Oxytocin effects on the amygdala were also observed in patients with BPD who showed not only less fast and less frequent saccades but also lower amygdala activity toward angry eyes compared to patients in the placebo group (7)....
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...Furthermore, faster initial saccades into the eyes—themost threatening part—of angry faces in patients with BPD suggest approach rather than avoidance behavior to interpersonal threat cues (7)....
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...Second, the above-mentioned tendency for faster and more saccades toward the eyes of angry faces was not found in patients with BPD following intranasal oxytocin administration, suggesting a decrease of social threat hypersensitivity (7)....
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...For example, patients with BPD show faster initial saccades into the eyes of angry faces, (7) are more likely to recognize even subtle signals of anger in facial stimuli (5), and misconstrue happy, fearful, or neutral faces more often as angry (6)....
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...Since we hypothesized modulatory effects of oxytocin in the amygdala, we applied a small-volume correction for multiple comparisons in predefined bilateral anatomical amygdala regions of interest (35)....
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...In healthy individuals, the intranasal administration of oxytocin reduces anxiety and stress in social situations (15), enhances the recognition of facial expressions (16–19), and shifts attention from negative to positive information (20–22), although individual differences and situational factors seem to play an important role (23)....
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...Anatomical labels for subregions within the amygdala were specified by comparing the location of activation clusters with high-resolution diagrams of the human amygdala as depicted in an anatomical atlas (36)....
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...anterior) amygdala to negative emotional stimuli (13, 25, 26), whichmay reflect a neural mechanism of its anxiolytic properties (24, 26)....
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...It has therefore been suggested that borderline patients who are hypersensitive to negative, threatening social information may benefit from intranasal oxytocin administration (29)....
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