Investigating the role of executive attentional control to self-harm in a non-clinical cohort with borderline personality features.

Self-injurious behavior (or self-harm) is a frequently reported maladaptive behavior in the general population and a key feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Poor affect regulation is strongly linked to a propensity to self-harm, is a core component of BPD, and is linked with reduced at...

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Main Authors: Jennifer eDrabble, David P Bowles, Lynne Ann Barker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00274/full