Emotional modulation of motor response inhibition in women with borderline personality disorder: an fMRI study

Converging Medial Frontal Resting State and Diffusion-Based Abnormalities in Borderline Personality Disorder

“…The observed left amygdala-anterior cingulate hyperconnectivity is also in agreement with the role assigned by theoretical and animal studies to frontolimbic connections as modulators of cognitive-emotional control of behavior (13,14) and could also be the cause of the interferences reported in functional MRI studies combining emotional and cognitive or inhibition tasks (66)(67)(68). Overall, our results support the theoretical model in which the amygdala, associated with emotional processing, is modulated by frontomedial structures controlling the complex manifestations and behavior derived from these same emotions.…”

Executive functions in borderline personality disorder

“…This is in line with Sebastian et al (2013), who state, based on a literature review on impulsivity in BPD, that response inhibition is less impaired in the context of emotionally neutral information but may become dysfunctional when affective and motivational factors are involved. A recent study by Jacob et al (2012) suggests that cerebral activation during response inhibition tasks is altered in BPD depending on the mood state of the participants. They found that only after the induction of anger, BPD and NP subjects engaged different cerebral mechanisms during task solving.…”

Using Functional Neuroimaging to Refine the Diagnostic Construct of Borderline Personality Disorder

“…Jacob and colleagues [161] administered a similar go/ no-go task three separate times, with the task preceded each time by the reading of an emotion induction story (anger, joy, neutral mood). During the go/no-go task, the participants had to press a button for every letter that appeared on the screen, except for the letter "X."…”