Objective Patients with borderline personality disorder are characterized by emotional
hyperarousal with increased stress levels, anger proneness, and hostile, impulsive
behaviors. They tend to ascribe anger to ambiguous facial expressions and exhibit
enhanced and prolonged reactions in response to threatening social cues, associated with
enhanced and prolonged amygdala responses. Because the intranasal administration of the
neuropeptide oxytocin has been shown to improve facial recognition and to shift attention …

Reports an error in" Oxytocin and reduction of social threat hypersensitivity in women with
borderline personality disorder" by Katja Bertsch, Matthias Gamer, Brigitte Schmidt, Ilinca
Schmidinger, Stephan Walther, Thorsten Kästel, Knut Schnell, Christian Büchel, Gregor
Domes and Sabine C. Herpertz (The American Journal of Psychiatry, 2013 [Oct][1], Vol 170
[10], 1169-1177). When this article was published online on August 28, 2013, the vertical
axis labels in Figure 2 were incorrect. The values along the vertical axes should be 0 to 70 …