Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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2 papers

Neurophysiological activity following rewards and losses among female adolescents and young adults with borderline personality disorder.

Jeremy G. Stewart, Paris Singleton, Erik M. Benau, Dan Foti, Hannah Allchurch, Cynthia S. Kaplan, et al.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology Summary & key facts 2019 16 citations

This study recorded brain activity (EEG) while 68 females aged 13–23 (35 with borderline personality disorder, 33 healthy) did a guessing task with equal wins and losses. People with BPD showed less difference in their brain responses to wins versus losses than healthy peers. Time-frequency tests suggested this smaller difference…

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Mental Health Research Topics Personality Disorders and Psychopathology

Symptom Overlap Between Depression and Borderline Personality Disorder: A Network Analysis

Bess M. Kew, Nathan J Monk, Tamlin S. Conner, Chris Frampton, Roger Mulder, Richard Porter, et al.

Researchers combined baseline data from 548 people in four clinical trials who all had current major depression. They used a network analysis, a method that maps how symptoms link to each other, to see which borderline personality disorder (BPD) and depression symptoms connect. After accounting for how severe the depression…

Bipolar Disorder and Treatment Mental Health Research Topics Schizophrenia research and treatment
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