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Female patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) exhibit heightened brain connectivity during aggression. This involves a distinct network linked to cognitive control and emotion regulation, suggesting altered neural processing in BPD.

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  • Brain Imaging

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  • Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by intense anger and aggression.
  • Neural system interplay is crucial for anger-related aggression control in BPD.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate whole-brain functional connectivity changes during anger and aggression in BPD.
  • Complement existing activation and seed-based connectivity analyses.

Main Methods:

  • Reanalyzed fMRI data from 33 women with BPD and 30 healthy controls.
  • Used script-driven imagery (baseline, anger, aggression, relaxation) and spectral clustering.
  • Computed functional connectivity matrices and analyzed differences between phases.

Main Results:

  • A single, large network showed increased connectivity from baseline to aggression in BPD patients vs. controls.
  • This network included regions involved in cognitive control, self-referential processing, and motor functions.
  • No significant differences were found for anger induction or anger-to-aggression transitions.

Conclusions:

  • Identified a distinct network with heightened connectivity during aggression in BPD.
  • This network integrates cognitive control, socio-affective, and motor systems via thalamic and caudate hubs.
  • Suggests increased interaction between prefrontal control and action selection in BPD aggression.