Dissociative Disorders - Diagnosis
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

A review of dissociative disorders treatment studies.

30 Aug 2009 This review examines empirical reports of treatment for Dissociative Disorders (DD), including 16 DD treatment outcome studies and 4 case studies that used standardized measures. Collectively, these reports suggest that treatment for DD is ... Read more...

Alexithymia, absorption, and cognitive failures in depersonalization disorder: a comparison to posttraumatic stress disorder and healthy volunteers.

29 Jun 2009 Alexithymia, absorption, and cognitive failures are traits that have been implicated in dissociative psychopathology. Forty-six participants with depersonalization disorder (DPD), 21 with posttraumatic stress disorder, and 35 healthy controls ... Read more...

Relationships among plasma dehydroepiandrosterone and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, cortisol, symptoms of dissociation, and objective performance in humans exposed to underwater navigation stress.

3 Jun 2009 BACKGROUND: A growing body of research has provided evidence that dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS) are involved in an organism's response to stress and that it may provide beneficial behavioral and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Dissociative Disorders - Diagnosis'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• A review of dissociative disorders treatment studies. 30 Aug 2009
• Alexithymia, absorption, and cognitive failures in depersonalization disorder: a comparison to posttraumatic stress disorder and healthy volunteers. 29 Jun 2009
• Relationships among plasma dehydroepiandrosterone and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, cortisol, symptoms of dissociation, and objective performance in humans exposed to underwater navigation stress. 3 Jun 2009
• Relationship of intentional self-harm using sharp objects with depressive and dissociative tendencies in pre-adolescence-adolescence. 30 May 2009
• The bare essentials: Functional symptoms in neurology. 30 May 2009
• [Somatoform dissociations in children and adolescents] 30 May 2009
• Quality of early care and childhood trauma: a prospective study of developmental pathways to dissociation. 30 May 2009
• Self-protective organization in children with conversion and somatoform disorders. 17 May 2009
• Predictive factors for acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder after motor vehicle accidents. 14 May 2009
• A transdiagnostic comparison of trauma and panic memories in PTSD, panic disorder, and healthy controls. 20 Apr 2009
• The interpretive process in the psychoanalytic psychotherapy of borderline personality pathology. 30 Mar 2009
• [Dissociative seizures: a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge on the borderline between psychiatry and neurology] 30 Mar 2009
• Brain dysfunction behind functional symptoms: neuroimaging and somatoform, conversive, and dissociative disorders. 27 Feb 2009
• Psychiatric symptoms and dissociation in conversion, somatization and dissociative disorders. 27 Feb 2009
• Errors of logic and scholarship concerning dissociative identity disorder. 27 Feb 2009
• Psychosis: a category or a dimension? 27 Feb 2009
• Cognitive and meta-cognitive dimensions of psychoses. 27 Feb 2009
• The Identity Consolidation Inventory (ICI): development and application of a questionnaire for assessing the structuralization of individual identity. 27 Feb 2009
• Early stage assessment and course of acute stress disorder after mild traumatic brain injury. 27 Feb 2009
• Further evidence that post-traumatic stress disorder but not dissociative disorders are related to amygdala and hippocampal size reduction in trauma-exposed individuals. 6 Feb 2009

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Technical information about 'Dissociative Disorders'

Definition: Sudden temporary alterations in the normally integrative functions of consciousness.

Descriptor UI: D004213

Alternative terms: Dissociative Disorders; Disorder, Dissociative; Disorders, Dissociative; Dissociative Disorder; Dissociative Reaction; Dissociative Reactions; Reaction, Dissociative; Reactions, Dissociative; Hysteria, Dissociative; Dissociative Hysteria; Hysterias, Dissociative; Fugue; Dissociation;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.300;

Online Note: use DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS to search DISSOCIATIVE REACTION 1969-80, FUGUE 1966-78, & DISSOCIATION 1969-78

History Note: 81; was DISSOCIATIVE REACTION 1968-80; DISSOCIATION was see under DISSOCIATIVE REACTION 1969-78; FUGUE was see under DISSOCIATIVE REACTION 1968-78, was heading 1963-67

Technical Notes: use Cat F3 qualif