Borderline personality disorder and laboratory-induced cold pressor pain: Evidence of stress-induced analgesia

Autor: Phillip A. DeSimone, William McCown, Jennifer Posa, Harry Galina, Judith L. Johnson
Rok vydání: 1993
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Zdroj: Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment. 15:87-95
ISSN: 1573-3505
0882-2689
DOI: 10.1007/bf00960610
Popis: Behavioral neuroscience findings regarding stress-induced analgesia may be an appropriate model for the paradoxical effects of self-mutilative pain of patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). We hypothesized that BPD patients would show an exaggerated antinociceptive effect from an uncontrollable cold pressor stress, compared to persons with other personality disorders or to a nonpsychiatric control group. This hypothesis was supported. Limitations of the study and directions for future research are discussed.
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