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Trustworthiness appraisal deficits in borderline personality disorder are associated with prefrontal cortex, not amygdala, impairment

Trustworthiness appraisal deficits in borderline personality disorder are associated with prefrontal cortex, not amygdala, impairment

Eric A.Fertuckabc JackGrinbandbcd J. JohnMannbc JoyHirschde KevinOchsnerf PaulPilkonisg JeffErbeac BarbaraStanleybc https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2018.101616Get rights and content Under a Creative Commons license open access Highlights •BPD is associated with sensitivity to signals of interpersonal betrayal and misplaced trust in others. •BPD subjects judged faces to be less trustworthy than controls. •Amygdala activity did not correlate with trustworthiness, but was modulated robustly by fearfulness of the stimulus. •Prefrontal cortex, not amygdala, was modulated by trustworthiness. •BPD was associated with reduced prefrontal activity, and the…

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Fear and decision-making in narcissistic personality disorder: A link between psychoanalysis and neuroscience

Fear and decision-making in narcissistic personality disorder: A link between psychoanalysis and neuroscience

Elsa Ronningstam, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Arielle R. Baskin-Sommers, MS Arielle R. Baskin-Sommers, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; Author information ► Copyright and License information ► Disclaimer This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Abstract Linking psychoanalytic studies with neuroscience has proven increasingly productive for identifying and understanding personality functioning. This article focuses on pathological narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), with the aim…

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Narcissistic Victim Syndrome | Jeni Mawter

Narcissistic Victim Syndrome | Jeni Mawter

A person with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) displays patterns of deviant behaviour that can create carnage for those around them (spouse, children, parents, siblings, friends, colleagues, peers, etc). Narcissistic Victim Abuse is abuse that has been caused by someone with this personality disorder. The NPD is not often medically diagnosed, so that the narcissistic individual goes undetected in society (home, work-place, organizations, social settings) and the victim’s plight unrecognised. A person with NPD has an inflated sense of their own…

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