Abstract
Recurrent patterns of unstable and ill-functioning interpersonal relationships are a crucial theme in borderline personality disorder (BPD). In the spirit of second-person neuroscience (Schillbach), I designed two novel paradigms to study multiple aspects of this disorder in the context of two-person interactions. These paradigms could constitute (after due refinement) useful instruments to disentangle, and measure, the underlying computational signatures of BPD symptoms. In this talk, I will first briefly introduce the audience to BPD, then delve into the novel paradigms, to ultimately give an overview of preliminary results from a first wave of behavioural studies.

Bio
Federico Mancinelli is a computational neuroscientist with a strong interest in psychiatry. In recent years, he has been particularly interested in personality disorder, appraisal of social interaction and particularly mentalisation. He is enthusiastic about creative and robust experimental designs, and advances in the ways we are able to measure and manipulate behaviour. Federico Mancinelli holds a PhD from CoMPLEX at University College London, where he carried out a quantitative investigation of behavioural control under supervision of Peter Dayan and Jonathan Roiser. He is currently a postdoc with Prof. Chris Mathys.