An eye-tracking study of interpersonal threat sensitivity and adverse childhood experiences in borderline personality disorder

ConclusionsBuilding on and extending earlier findings, our results are likely to suggest a visual hypervigilance towards the eyes of emotional and neutral facial expressions and a childhood trauma-related anger bias in patients with BPD. Given the lack of a clinical control group, the question whether these findings are specific for BPD has to remain open. Thus, further research is needed to elucidate the specificity of altered visual attention allocation and the role of ACE in anger recognition in patients with BPD.
Source: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation - Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research