Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a mental illness with a high worldwide prevalence and economic costs, and is characterized with impulsiveness, both interpersonal relationships and emotional disturbance. Symptoms are related to hypofunction of frontal areas like Dorsomedial Prefrontal Cortex (DMPFC). Psychotherapy is the base treatment in this disease, but economic costs and long-time therapy have made difficult the attachment. Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation(rTMS), authorized by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) treatment has proven good results in previous works in BPD clinical characteristics on both dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and enhancement in depressive symptoms stimulating DMPFC in high frequency. However, there are no current research that have addressed the use of low-frequency on this anatomical area.
This study evaluates the effect of 5Hz repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) on Dorsomedial Prefrontal Cortex on Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).