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:: Volume 29, Issue 2 (Bimothly 2025) ::
Feyz Med Sci J 2025, 29(2): 199-207 Back to browse issues page
Comparison of cognitive and emotional functioning in individuals with borderline personality disorder versus healthy controls: A QEEG-based study
Seyyedeh Sahar Asgari Ghalebin * , Sajjad Bashrpour , Niloufar Mikaeili , Nader Hajloo , Fatemeh Gholipour
Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran , s.asgari@uma.ac.ir
Abstract:   (446 Views)
Background and Aim: Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is associated with cognitive and emotional impairments. This study aimed to compare cognitive and emotional functioning between individuals with BPD and healthy controls using quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG).
Methods: In this cross-sectional study conducted in late 2024, 30 participants (15 with BPD and 15 healthy controls) underwent 7-minute 15-second resting-state QEEG recordings with eyes closed at the National Brain Mapping Laboratory, Tehran University. Three minutes of artifact-free data were selected for analysis using NeuroGuide software. Between-group comparisons were performed using multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA).
Results: Participants with BPD exhibited significantly poorer performance (p<0.05) across all measured cognitive and emotional domains, including reward/addiction, anxiety, dorsal attention, ventral attention, executive function, default mode network, mood regulation, language, memory, mirror neurons, pain processing, and salience attention, compared to healthy controls.
Conclusion: Individuals with BPD demonstrate impaired cognitive and emotional functioning, suggesting altered interactions between various neural networks. These findings highlight the widespread neurophysiological correlates of BPD symptomatology.
Keywords: Borderline personality disorder, Cognitive function, Emotional processing, NeuroGuide, Brain networksNetworks
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Type of Study: Research | Subject: General
Received: 2025/04/6 | Revised: 2025/07/8 | Accepted: 2025/05/28 | Published: 2025/07/1
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