Changes in the Brain as Borderline Patients Learn to Regulate Their Emotions

NCT02465697 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 169

Last updated 2017-10-31

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Summary

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), a prevalent psychiatric disorder found in approximately 2% to 6% of the population and 20% of hospitalized psychiatric patients, has proven quite treatment resistant. This study is designed to determine whether patients with BPD can be trained to improve their ability to regulate their emotions and whether this leads to changes in how their brans regulate emotion.

Conditions

  • Borderline Personality Disorders
  • Avoidant Personality Disorders

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Reappraisal Training

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Harold W Koenigsberg, MD · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
55 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-09-30
Primary Completion
2017-09-21
Completion
2017-09-21

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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