title: False memories and memory confidence in borderline patients.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Mixed results have been obtained regarding memory in patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Prior reports and anecdotal evidence suggests that patients with BPD are prone to false memories but this assumption has to been put to firm empirical test, yet.
  
  
  METHODS
  Memory accuracy and confidence was assessed in 20 BPD patients and 22 healthy controls using a visual variant of the false memory (Deese-Roediger-McDermott) paradigm which involved a negative and a positive-valenced picture.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Groups did not differ regarding veridical item recognition. Importantly, patients did not display more false memories than controls. At trend level, borderline patients rated more items as new with high confidence compared to healthy controls.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results tentatively suggest that borderline patients show uncompromised visual memory functions and display no increased susceptibility for distorted memories.
authors: Asklepios Medical Center Hamburg-North--Wandsbek, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hamburg, Germany. l.schilling@uke.de
authors: Lisa
authors: L
authors: Schilling
authors: Katja
authors: K
authors: Wingenfeld
authors: Carsten
authors: C
authors: Spitzer
authors: Matthias
authors: M
authors: Nagel
authors: Steffen
authors: S
authors: Moritz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001143:Arousal; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D012094:Repression, Psychology
keywords: Borderline personality disorder; Confidence; Decision making; Deese-Roediger-McDermott; False memories; Visual memory