A New Light On The Brains Of People With Borderline Personality Disorder
Sunday, August 10, 2008 - 22:28
in Psychology & Sociology
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 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, according to an article in Science.
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