NCT04504994

Stress & Social Cognition in Borderline Personality Disorder

"Fight-or-flight" Versus "Tend-and-befriend" Response to Behavioral and Pharmacological Interventions in Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder - Part I

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 196 (actual)
• Sponsor: Charite University, Berlin, Germany · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The investigators will examine whether perceived social exclusion provoke a reduction in prosocial behavior in BPD patients.

Detailed description

The investigators will examine whether perceived social exclusion provoke a reduction in prosocial behavior, such as empathy, in BPD patients and whether this "fight-or-flight" pattern is also seen in other relevant aspects of social behavior, such as sharing and punishment behavior. To induce social exclusion all participants will play cyberball, either the exclusion condition or the (over)inclusion condition before testing

Conditions

• Borderline Personality Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	inclusion condition	cyberball game: ex- versus over-inclusion condition

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-02-01
• Primary completion: 2021-12-01
• Completion: 2021-12-01
• First posted: 2020-08-07
• Last updated: 2022-03-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany