Can’t Look Away: Autonomic Nervous System Dysregulation Mediates Effects of Borderline Personality Disorder on Distress Attention Disengagement

This study examined the link between BPD symptoms and emotion dysregulation as a function of sympathetic hyperarousal and attention inflexibility. Findings suggest that elevated BPD symptoms are associated with attention inflexibility via sympathetic hyper- and hypo-arousal. Sympathetic arousal mediated the effects of BPD on emotion dysregulation.