Neural correlates of negative emotionality in borderline personality disorder: an activation-likelihood-estimation meta-analysisAnthony C Ruocco
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Canada
Biol Psychiatry 73:153-60. 2013
..A quantitative synthesis of functional neuroimaging studies might clarify the neural systems dysfunctions that underlie negative emotionality in BPD...
- Response inhibition deficits in unaffected first-degree relatives of patients with borderline personality disorder
Anthony C Ruocco
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON M1C 1A4, Canada
Neuropsychology 26:473-82. 2012
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- Abnormal prefrontal cortical response during affective processing in borderline personality disorder
Anthony C Ruocco
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Psychiatry Res 182:117-22. 2010
..This abnormal cortical response, possibly in tandem with subcortical-limbic regions, may underlie symptoms of emotion dysregulation in BPD...
- Medial prefrontal cortex hyperactivation during social exclusion in borderline personality disorder
Anthony C Ruocco
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Psychiatry Res 181:233-6. 2010
..BPD subjects showed left medial prefrontal cortex hyperactivation during social exclusion suggesting potential dysfunction of frontolimbic circuitry...
Indices of orbitofrontal and prefrontal function in Cluster B and Cluster C personality disordersAnthony C Ruocco
Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Psychiatry Res 170:282-5. 2009
..The present study is among the first to report neurocognitive findings for the full range of Cluster B personality disorders and any Cluster C personality disorder...
Distinguishing between neuropsychological malingering and exaggerated psychiatric symptoms in a neuropsychological settingAnthony C Ruocco
Department of Psychology, Neuropsychology Program, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19102 1192, USA
Clin Neuropsychol 22:547-64. 2008
..6% solely failed the neuropsychological SVT, and 6.1% solely failed the psychiatric SVT. The results support a dissociation between neuropsychological malingering and exaggeration of psychiatric symptoms in a neuropsychological setting...
- The impact of ablated cortex on the validity and interpretation of the fNIRS signal
Anna Caterina Merzagora
School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2008:4028-31. 2008
..fNIRS measures were recorded during a verbal fluency task, known to be associated to functioning of the left frontal lobe. We examine the outcome of fNIRS, contextualizing it in the framework of the mBLL and its assumptions...
- Assessing personality and psychopathology after traumatic brain injury with the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III
Anthony C Ruocco
Department of Psychology, Neuropsychology Program, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Brain Inj 21:1233-44. 2007
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- Functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS): an emerging neuroimaging technology with important applications for the study of brain disorders
Farzin Irani
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Clin Neuropsychol 21:9-37. 2007
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- Personality disorder symptomatology and neuropsychological functioning in closed head injury
Anthony C Ruocco
Drexel University, Department of Psychology, 245 North 15th Street, Mail Stop 626, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 19:27-35. 2007
..Results suggest that many personality disorder traits are related to neurocognitive function, particularly those functions subserved by frontal and temporal regions...
- Dual-modality monitoring in a classification task: the effects of bilingualism and ageing
Ellen Bialystok
Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 59:1968-83. 2006
..The results indicate different processing demands for the two domains, with the simpler domain (LN) favouring bilinguals and the more semantically complex domain (AM) favouring related judgements for the two task modalities...
- Amygdala and hippocampal volume reductions as candidate endophenotypes for borderline personality disorder: a meta-analysis of magnetic resonance imaging studies
Anthony C Ruocco
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Canada
Psychiatry Res 201:245-52. 2012
..Decreased volumes of these key limbic structures may hold promise as candidate endophenotypes for BPD...
- The neuropsychology of borderline personality disorder: a meta-analysis and review
Anthony C Ruocco
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, 245 N 15th Street, Mail Stop 626, Philadelphia, PA 19102 1192, USA
Psychiatry Res 137:191-202. 2005
..Implications of these findings for future neurocognitive investigations of BPD are discussed...
- Re-evaluating the distinction between Axis I and Axis II disorders: the case of borderline personality disorder
Anthony C Ruocco
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19102 1192, USA
J Clin Psychol 61:1509-23. 2005
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