Effects of a computer-assisted training on social cognition in Borderline Personality Disorder

Effects of a computer-assisted training on social cognition in Borderline Personality Disorder - SoZoo

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

DRKS

Registry ID

DRKS00014032

Enrollment

Registered

2018-02-19

Start date

2018-03-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-04-07

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Conditions

F60.31

Interventions

Group 1: Computer-assisted social cognitive training (duration 6 weeks with 30min training/day). It trains social-cognitive functions during processing social-emotional stimuli such as perception and

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

Female

Age

18 Years to 50 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Borderline-Personality Disorder (BPD): BPD diagnosis with International Personality Disorder Examination (>=5 out of 9 criteria following DSM-5, IPDE, Loranger, 1999)

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Diagnosis of schizophenic disorder or bipolar I disorder, substance dependency during the last year, current substance abuse, epilepsy, brain trauma, brain tumor or other neurological diseases additional exclusion criteria for participating in the fmrt tasks: BMI<16.5, metall implants, permanent make-up, claustrophobia, left-handedness

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Cognitive and social-cognitive processes are assessed prior and following the training with help of a task battery (social-cognitive processes: perception and evaluation of positive social-emotional information including a facial emotion intensity rating tasks (Thome et al., 2016), perception of social cues during a virtual reality setting and its effects on subsequent interaction behavior (Liebke et al. in revision), evaluation and anticipation of social scenes (adapted version of the fMRT task introduced by Herwig et al., 2010); cognitive processes: trail-making test, N-back, word/attribution fluency). During one cognitive and one social cognitive task (Anticipation of social scenes, N-back task) neuronal correlates of the processes will be assessed with functional magnetresonancetomography.	—

Measure

Time frame

Cognitive and social-cognitive processes are assessed prior and following the training with help of a task battery (social-cognitive processes: perception and evaluation of positive social-emotional information including a facial emotion intensity rating tasks (Thome et al., 2016), perception of social cues during a virtual reality setting and its effects on subsequent interaction behavior (Liebke et al. in revision), evaluation and anticipation of social scenes (adapted version of the fMRT task introduced by Herwig et al., 2010); cognitive processes: trail-making test, N-back, word/attribution fluency). During one cognitive and one social cognitive task (Anticipation of social scenes, N-back task) neuronal correlates of the processes will be assessed with functional magnetresonancetomography.

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Secondary

Measure	Time frame
social functioning (Social Functioning Scale, Birchwood et al., 1990) loneliness (UCLA Loneliness Scale-R, Russell et al., 1980) rejection sensitivity (Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire, Bungert et al., 2015) self-esteem (Self-Esteem Scale, Rosenberg, 1965) Ambulatory assessment of frequency and emotional evaluation of social encounters	—

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactCorinna Scheel

ZI Mannheim

corinna.scheel@zi-mannheim.de062101703 4409

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026