Cognitive Reappraisal Training for Borderline Personality (BPD)
Borderline Personality Disorder
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Borderline Personality Disorder focused on measuring BPD, Treatment, fMRI, cognitive reappraisal, Borderline Personality Disorder
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Medically healthy men and women with Borderline Personality Disorder who are mentally competent and give informed voluntary written consent.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Age > 55
- Criteria for Schizotypal Personality Disorder or Avoidant Personality Disorder. SPD is excluded to avoid possible confound from the restricted affect that characterizes SPD and co-morbid AvPD subjects will be excluded because the researchers have shown that their patterns of neural activity in emotion processing are distinct from BPD subjects.
Sites / Locations
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Active Comparator
Cognitive Reappraisal-by-Distancing (CRD)
Control Downregulate Condition (CD)
Subjects will be coached to use cognitive reappraisal-by-distancing to downregulate their negative reactions to aversive emotional pictures usng practice pictures.
Subjects will be coached to practice their customary emotion regulatory techniques in a treatment occurring twice a week for 6 weeks.