Pain Processing after Social Exclusion and Its Relation to Rejection Sensitivity in Borderline Personality Disorder.

There is a general agreement that physical pain serves as an alarm signal for the prevention of and reaction to physical harm. It has recently been hypothesized that "social pain," as induced by social rejection or abandonment, may rely on comparable, phylogenetically old brain structures....

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Main Authors: Melanie Bungert, Georgia Koppe, Inga Niedtfeld, Sabine Vollstädt-Klein, Christian Schmahl, Stefanie Lis, Martin Bohus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4524681?pdf=render