Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 172, Issue 3 , Pages 192-199 , 30 June 2009

Neural correlates of emotion processing in borderline personality disorder

  • Harold W. Koenigsberg

      Affiliations

    • Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
    • James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, NY, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Mount Sinai School of Medicine, James J Peters VA Medical Center, 116A, 130 West Kingsbridge Road, Bronx, NY 10468, United States. Tel.: +718 584 9000x5757; fax: +718 364 3576.
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  • Larry J. Siever

      Affiliations

    • Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
    • James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, NY, United States
    • ,
  • Hedok Lee

      Affiliations

    • James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, NY, United States
    • ,
  • Scott Pizzarello

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
    • ,
  • Antonia S. New

      Affiliations

    • Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
    • James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, NY, United States
    • ,
  • Marianne Goodman

      Affiliations

    • Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
    • James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, NY, United States
    • ,
  • Hu Cheng

      Affiliations

    • Indiana University, United States
    • ,
  • Janine Flory

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Queens College, Flushing, NY, United States
    • ,
  • Isak Prohovnik

      Affiliations

    • Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
    • James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, NY, United States

Received 20 August 2007 ,Revised 19 May 2008 ,Accepted 4 July 2008.

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☆ Presented in part at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Biological Psychiatry, San Diego, CA, May 2007.

PII: S0925-4927(08)00096-6

doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2008.07.010

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 172, Issue 3 , Pages 192-199 , 30 June 2009

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