Decreased Amygdalar Activation to NSSI-Stimuli in People Who Engage in NSSI: A Neuroimaging Pilot Study
In healthy individuals, stimuli associated with injury (such as those depicting blood or wounds) tend to evoke negative responses on both self-report and psychophysiological measures.Such an instinctive aversion makes sense from an evolutionary perspective.However, to engage in nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI), this natural barrier must be overcome.T