Kramer, Ueli Kolly, Stéphane Maillard, Pauline Pascual-Leone, Antonio Samson, Andrea C. Schmitt, Ruth Bernini, Adriano Allenbach, Gilles Charbon, Patrick de Roten, Yves Conus, Philippe Despland, Jean-Nicolas Draganski, Bogdan 2018 Changes in emotion processing (EP) and in theory of mind (TOM) are central across treatment approaches for patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Whilst the assessment of EP relies on the observation patient’s self-criticism in a two-chair dialogue, individual’s TOM assessments is made based on responses to humorous stimuli based on false beliefs. For this pilot study, we assessed eight patients with BPD before and after a three-month long psychiatric treatment, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and behavioral tasks. We observed arousal increase within session of the two-chair dialogue (d = 0.36), paralleled by arousal decrease between sessions (d = 0.80). We found treatment associated trends for neural activity reduction in brain areas central for EP and TOM. Our exploratory findings using an integrative assessment procedure of changes in EP and TOM point towards evidence for treatment effects at the brain systems level related to behavioral modulation. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/324878 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/324878/files/krameretal.2018.changeinemotionalandtheoryofmindprocessinginborderline_av_30507735_1.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1097/NMD.0000000000000905 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/1539-736X info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease. - Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health). - 2018, vol. 206, no. 12, p. 935-943 emotional processing; theory of mind; self-criticism; borderline personality disorder; fMRI Change in Emotional and Theory of Mind Processing in Borderline Personality Disorder : A Pilot Study http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501