While this might sound like the work of science-fiction there have been multiple attempts to diagnose various mental health conditions with brains scans before, all of which have resulted in inconsistent diagnoses. But thanks to new technologies like voxel-based morphometry (VBM) doctors can now scan the brain and make fairly accurate diagnoses, even for BPD! The results of this new study could well mean faster, easier BPD diagnosis and to be fair the results of the study are encouraging…
The study done by the National Center for Biotechnology information took 61 people all of which have been professionally diagnosed with BPD and 19 healthy-minded people, all of which have been cleared with psychotherapy profiling. (in short, they are sane). All 61 of those with fully diagnosed BPD structural abnormalities and therapeutic response in the brain when the other 19 control based group didn’t. Yes, in short, it could well prove that BPD is an actual brain anomaly rather than something deemed a personality feature. The results of this test could change BPD diagnoses forever and the full study is well worth a read.
While most of the tech talk behind this study is far above my own head you can read all about this very interesting study here – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33634348/
