Unstable mood may ruin your romantic relationship

Unstable mood may ruin your romantic relationship

Individuals with borderline personality disorder, or BPD may have lowered brain activity in regions important for empathy which in turn could trigger trouble in relationships, a study indicated.

“Our results showed that people with BPD traits had reduced activity in brain regions that support empathy,” said study lead author Brian Haas, assistant professor at University of Georgia in the US. “This reduced activation may suggest that people with more BPD traits have a more difficult time understanding andor predicting how others feel, at least compared to individuals with fewer BPD traits.” The researchers found a link between those with high borderline personality traits and a decreased use of neural activity in two parts of the brain: the temporoparietal junction and the superior temporal sulcus, two brain regions implicated to be critically important during empathic processing. “We found that for those with more BPD traits, empathetic processes are not as easily activated,” the study’s co-author Joshua Miller, psychology professor at University of Georgia, noted.