Evidence is heterogeneous regarding whether patients with borderline personality disorder
(BPD) display disturbed emotional inhibition in the emotional Stroop task. Previous findings
suggest that state dissociation may influence cognitive inhibition of task-irrelevant material,
particularly with negative content. Our aim was to examine performance in an emotional
Stroop task including negative, neutral, and positive words in BPD patients and healthy
controls during functional magnetic resonance imaging. In advance, half of the BPD patients …