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Katja Bertsch

Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Dep. Psychology, JMU Wuerzburg
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Oxytocin and reduction of social threat hypersensitivity in women with borderline personality disorder

K Bertsch, M Gamer, B Schmidt… - American Journal of …, 2013 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective Patients with borderline personality disorder are characterized by emotional
hyperarousal with increased stress levels, anger proneness, and hostile, impulsive behaviors. …

Aggression in borderline personality disorder: A multidimensional model.

F Mancke, SC Herpertz, K Bertsch - Personality Disorders: Theory …, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
This article proposes a multidimensional model of aggression in borderline personality
disorder (BPD) from the perspective of the biobehavioral dimensions of affective dysregulation, …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of disturbed emotion processing and social interaction in borderline personality disorder: state of knowledge and research agenda of the …

C Schmahl, SC Herpertz, K Bertsch, G Ende… - … personality disorder and …, 2014 - Springer
The last two decades have seen a strong rise in empirical research in the mechanisms of
emotion dysregulation in borderline personality disorder. Major findings comprise structural as …

A new perspective on the pathophysiology of borderline personality disorder: a model of the role of oxytocin

SC Herpertz, K Bertsch - American Journal of Psychiatry, 2015 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Borderline personality disorder is characterized by three domains of dysfunction: affect
dysregulation, behavioral dyscontrol, and interpersonal hypersensitivity. Interpersonal …

Stability of heart rate variability indices reflecting parasympathetic activity

K Bertsch, D Hagemann, E Naumann… - …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Heart rate variability ( HRV ) is a measure of autonomic influences on heart rate that has
frequently been used as a transsituationally consistent biomarker for cardiovascular health and …

Reduced plasma oxytocin levels in female patients with borderline personality disorder

K Bertsch, I Schmidinger, ID Neumann… - Hormones and …, 2013 - Elsevier
The neuropeptide oxytocin is involved in social cognition and interaction across species and
plays a crucial role in the regulation of affiliative behaviors. Oxytocin levels in cerebrospinal …

Resting cerebral blood flow, attention, and aging

K Bertsch, D Hagemann, M Hermes, C Walter, R Khan… - Brain research, 2009 - Elsevier
Aging is accompanied by a decline of fluid cognitive functions, eg, a slowing of information
processing, working memory, and division of attention. This is at least partly due to structural …

Cortical representation of afferent bodily signals in borderline personality disorder: neural correlates and relationship to emotional dysregulation

…, DM Gescher, A Spohn, SC Herpertz, K Bertsch - JAMA …, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The ability to perceive and regulate one’s own emotions has been tightly linked
to the processing of afferent bodily signals (interoception). Thus, disturbed interoception …

The social-cognitive basis of personality disorders

SC Herpertz, K Bertsch - Current opinion in psychiatry, 2014 - journals.lww.com
… Herpertz, Sabine C.; Bertsch, KatjaBertsch K, Gamer M, Schmidt B, et al. Oxytocin
reduces social threat hypersensitivity in females with borderline personality disorder. Am J …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding brain mechanisms of reactive aggression

K Bertsch, J Florange, SC Herpertz - Current psychiatry reports, 2020 - Springer
Purpose of Review To review the current literature on biobehavioral mechanisms involved
in reactive aggression in a transdiagnostic approach. Recent Findings Aggressive reactions …