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September 19, 2025European Eating Disorders Review

Neural Underpinnings of Cognitive Reappraisal and Emotion Suppression in Response to Disorder‐Specific Stimuli in Women With Borderline Personality Disorder and Women With Restrictive Anorexia Nervosa: An fMRI Study

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EKEmilia KotAPAgnieszka PlutaJWJakub Wojciechowski

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Overview

fMRI analysis shows distinct neural patterns of emotion regulation in women with borderline personality disorder and anorexia nervosa, suggesting unique responses to disorder-specific stimuli.

Key Points

  • Neural patterns reveal that BPD and AN individuals respond differently to emotional stimuli, highlighting unique activation in brain regions.
  • BPD showed increased activation in the anterior orbitofrontal cortex and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, while AN demonstrated both increased and decreased activation across different regions.
  • Cognitive reappraisal and emotion suppression tasks revealed an overall worsening of emotional states across all participants after the fMRI task.
  • Using disorder-specific stimuli enhances ecological validity, providing insight into emotional regulation mechanisms in clinical populations.

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Kot et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d46cd731b076d99fa6958ehttps://doi.org/10.1002/erv.70031
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