NEUROIMAGING OF ADOLESCENT BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER WITH AND WITHOUT POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

"Anatomical MRI The anatomical data will be acquired by means of a 3T Signa Premier General Electric Healthcare MRI, allowing the acquisition of classic anatomical sequences (T1, T2) and a high-resolution hippocampal sequence allowing to accurately apprehend its various sub-fields. (total acquisition time: 10 min).~The hippocampal volume, the orbital-frontal cortex and the cingulate cortex will be measured by voxel-based morphometry (VBM; Ashburner \& Friston, 2000\]) using the SPM software (Statistical Parametric Mapping; Friston et al., 2006). The voxel-by-voxel morphometric analysis of T1 MRI images makes it possible to classify and segment the different brain tissues (gray matter versus white matter) and to analyze the focal differences in volume within these tissues between the different groups."