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Borderline personality disorder patients with court-ordered measures (BDL-COM) show altered brain activity during visual perspective-taking tasks. Their neural activation patterns differ significantly from healthy controls, particularly with mentalizing stimuli.

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Psychiatry
Cognitive Psychology

Background:

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is associated with social-cognitive deficits.
Understanding neural mechanisms in BPD is crucial for targeted interventions.
Visual perspective-taking is a key aspect of social cognition often impaired in BPD.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate neural generator differences in visual perspective-taking between BDL-COM patients and controls.
To examine brain activation patterns for mentalizing (Avatar) versus non-mentalizing (Arrow) stimuli.
To compare self versus other-perspective taking in the dot perspective task (dPT).

Main Methods:

Electroencephalography (EEG) was used to record neural activity.
The study included 15 BDL-COM patients and 54 healthy male controls.
Participants performed the dot perspective task (dPT) with Avatar and Arrow stimuli, varying perspective (self/other).

Main Results:

BDL-COM patients exhibited late, diffuse right-hemisphere EEG activation, unlike controls' occipitofrontal patterns.
Early in the task (<80 ms), BDL-COM patients showed reduced EEG activity in specific regions (e.g., insula) for self-perspective with Avatars.
BDL-COM patients displayed lower beta oscillation power between 400-1300 ms in the Avatar-Other condition.

Conclusions:

BDL-COM patients demonstrate altered EEG activation topography during visual perspective-taking.
Reduced ability to mobilize beta oscillations is observed in BDL-COM patients when processing mentalistic stimuli.
These findings highlight neurophysiological differences in social cognition for BDL-COM patients.