Table 2.

Behavioral data and stimulus evaluations of the borderline personality disorder (BPD), non-patient controls (NPC), and cluster-C control patients (CCP) during the go/no-go task for the neutral, negative, positive and erotic stimuli

Behavioral data	BPD (n = 27)	NPC (n = 26)	CCP (n = 19)
Omissions, mean (SD)
Neutral	2.26 (3.74)	0.62 (1.39)	0.89 (1.24)
Negative	2.22 (3.76)	0.50 (1.14)	0.89 (1.47)
Positive	1.89 (3.14)	0.73 (1.43)	0.26 (0.45)
Erotic	2.67 (3.88)	0.38 (1.06)	0.79 (1.08)
Commissions, mean (SD)
Neutral	1.96 (1.70)	2.31 (2.92)	2.37 (2.85)
Negative	2.59 (1.91)	2.27 (2.29)	2.95 (3.46)
Positive	2.26 (2.09)	1.96 (2.11)	2.95 (2.70)
Erotic	1.78 (1.78)	1.88 (1.99)	1.95 (2.46)
Reaction time Commissions, mean (SD), msec
Neutral	379.76 (229.74)	264.74 (210.21)	245.94 (206.00)
Negative	400.15 (172.96)	399.25 (246.29)	302.38 (229.85)
Positive	300.89 (197.59)	266.42 (194.36)	372.94 (133.98)
Erotic	313.21 (252.27)	287.53 (211.61)	245.55 (205.51)
Reaction time Hitsa, mean (SD), msec
Neutral	487.97 (59.32)	457.76 (60.10)	472.37 (55.72)
Negative	480.98 (57.72)	449.59 (63.13)	469.99 (58.93)
Positive	478.66 (57.70)	445.72 (59.94)	457.46 (59.61)
Erotic	484.58 (56.94)	451.96 (55.01)	466.22 (57.11)
Stimulus evaluations after scanning	BPD (n = 30)	NPC (n = 30)	CCP (n = 19)
Arousal, mean (SD)
Neutral	3.73 (1.01)	2.97 (1.27)	3.63 (0.96)
Negative	5.50 (1.91)	6.13 (1.96)	6.47 (1.45)
Positive	3.63 (1.45)	3.03 (2.03)	3.47 (1.61)
Erotic	4.30 (1.49)	4.03 (1.77)	4.63 (1.50)
Valence, mean (SD)
Neutral	5.03 (0.72)	6.00 (1.11)	5.26 (0.65)
Negative	2.23 (1.01)	2.13 (0.86)	2.05 (1.22)
Positive	7.10 (1.03)	7.97 (0.96)	7.52 (0.96)
Erotic	6.20 (1.49)	7.23 (1.38)	6.53 (1.65)

^aMean reaction time was calculated for the correct trials