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Risky brain, safe brain: MIT charts neural pathways involved in decision-making
The findings could help researchers discover new ways to treat psychiatric disorders that feature impaired decision-making, such as depression, schizophrenia, and borderline personality disorder. Risky brain, safe brain: MIT charts neural pathways involved in decision-making Every decision we take is influenced to some extent by emotion, and choices that offer both negative and positive elements – such as picking a higher paying but hazardous job or a safer but less profitable one – evoke them the most, particularly anxiety. Researchers at MIT have now identified a neural circuit that they believe underpins decision-making in situations such as this, and have started looking into mice’s brains to better understand the biological…
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Bipolar vs. Borderline Personality Disorder: The Differences Between The Two And How To Avoid Misdiagnosis
According to a study published in Psychiatry, a large number of bipolar patients (up to 69 percent) are misdiagnosed initially, and up to one-third remain misdiagnosed for a long time afterward. Bipolar vs. Borderline Personality Disorder: The Differences Between The Two And How To Avoid Misdiagnosis May 28, 2015 09:00 AM By Lecia Bushak While bipolar and borderline personality disorder have similar symptoms — such as extreme mood swings — that can oft confuse the two, they’re completely different conditions that have their own unique treatments. Diagnosing either of the disorders is extremely difficult and requires extensive questioning, medical history, and information about the person’s background and symptoms to get…
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Interview with Talya Lewis Author & BPD Sufferer
Interview with Talya Lewis, author of The Boom Boom Retreat: A Memoir and Borderline Personality Disorder sufferer (in the past). It’s worth a listen and her book is worth a read, especially for people with BPD. “Shame is the core experience of someone with Borderline Disorder” – a quote from the audio. It just confirms that what I wrote in When Hope is Not Enough is true. I write of shame as the fuel of BPD, with emotional regulation being the engine. A quote from my book: “Emotional dysregulation is the engine that drives the train of BPD. Shame and impulsiveness also contribute no doubt (maybe as fuel and throttle…
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Brain Surgery To Remove Amygdala Leads To Woman’s ‘Hyper Empathy’
“Emotional empathy refers to feeling another person’s emotion,” Richard-Mornas said. “While cognitive empathy is the ability to adopt the other person’s point of view, or ‘put oneself in his/her shoes,’ without necessarily experiencing any emotion.” Brain Surgery To Remove Amygdala Leads To Woman’s ‘Hyper Empathy’ By Bahar Gholipour, Staff Writer In a strange case, a woman developed “hyper empathy” after having a part of her brain called the amygdala removed in an effort to treat her severe epilepsy, according to a report of her case. Empathy is the ability to recognize another person’s emotions. The case was especially unusual because the amygdala is involved in recognizing emotions, and removing it…
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Pain Really Is All In Your Head And Emotion Controls Intensity
Positive emotions — like feeling calm and safe and connected to others — can minimize pain. But negative emotions tend to have the opposite effect. Pain Really Is All In Your Head And Emotion Controls Intensity FEBRUARY 18, 2015 4:03 PM ET JON HAMILTON When you whack yourself with a hammer, it feels like the pain is in your thumb. But really it’s in your brain. That’s because our perception of pain is shaped by brain circuits that are constantly filtering the information coming from our sensory nerves, says David Linden, a professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University and author of the new book Touch: The Science of Hand,…
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Does Borderline Personality Develop in the Womb?
Cornelia E. Schwarze of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University Medical Center Mainz in Germany led the study that looked at the prenatal conditions of 100 individuals with BPD and compared them to 100 participants with no history of BPD. Does Borderline Personality Develop in the Womb? August 28th, 2013 Contributed by Jen Wilson, GoodTherapy.org Correspondent Research on borderline personality (BPD) has explored various avenues in search of risk factors. But according to a recent study, some of the biggest risk factors for BPD may develop in the womb. Cornelia E. Schwarze of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University Medical Center Mainz in Germany…