Scan casts new light on neurobiology of borderline personality disorder

In a game of give and get, the brains of people with borderline personality disorder often don’t get it.

In fact, an interactive economic game played between two people in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) devices revealed a brain malfunction associated with the disorder, a serious but common mental illness that affects a person’s perceptions of the world and other people, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears in the current issue of the journal Science.  Continue reading

Source: Baylor College of Medicine