Dissociative Disorders - Physiopathology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Emotional learning during dissociative states in borderline personality disorder.

29 Apr 2009 BACKGROUND: Neurobiological findings and clinical data suggest that dissociative experience inhibits conditioning processes, but experimental studies are lacking. The aim of our study was to determine whether high states of dissociative experience ... Read more...

Brain dysfunction behind functional symptoms: neuroimaging and somatoform, conversive, and dissociative disorders.

27 Feb 2009 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Neuroimaging research in psychiatry has been increasing exponentially in recent years, yet many psychiatrists are relatively unfamiliar with this field. This article summarizes the findings of the most relevant research articles ... Read more...

Evidence of dissociated arousal states during NREM parasomnia from an intracerebral neurophysiological study.

27 Feb 2009 STUDY OBJECTIVES: Arousal parasomnias are expressions of sleep/ wake state dissociations in which wakefulness and NREM sleep seem to coexist. We describe the results of a neurophysiological (intracerebral EEG) investigation that captured an episode ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Dissociative Disorders - Physiopathology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Emotional learning during dissociative states in borderline personality disorder. 29 Apr 2009
• Brain dysfunction behind functional symptoms: neuroimaging and somatoform, conversive, and dissociative disorders. 27 Feb 2009
• Evidence of dissociated arousal states during NREM parasomnia from an intracerebral neurophysiological study. 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
• Dissociation and borderline personality disorder: an update for clinicians. 30 Jan 2009
• Revisiting the metacontrast dissociation: comparing sensitivity across different measures and tasks. 30 Jan 2009
• Visual hallucinations and pontine demyelination in a child: possible REM dissociation? 13 Dec 2008
• Dissociation, cognitive conflict and nonlinear patterns of heart rate dynamics in patients with unipolar depression. 15 Nov 2008
• A double dissociation between somatosensory processing for perception and action. 4 Nov 2008
• Double dissociation of the effects of medial and orbital prefrontal cortical lesions on attentional and affective shifts in mice. 27 Oct 2008
• Dissociation versus posttraumatic stress: cortisol and physiological correlates in adults highly exposed to the World Trade Center attack on 9/11. 15 Oct 2008
• Dissociative symptoms and neuroendocrine dysregulation in depression. 29 Sep 2008
• Prefrontal functional dissociation in the semantic network of patients with schizophrenia. 15 Sep 2008
• A cognitive model of peritraumatic dissociation. 30 Aug 2008
• What state dissociation can teach us about consciousness and the function of sleep. 21 Jul 2008
• A case of persistent retrograde amnesia following a dissociative fugue: neuropsychological and neurofunctional underpinnings of loss of autobiographical memory and self-awareness. 19 Jun 2008
• [Hysteria: an historical entity, a psychiatric condition or a neurological disease?] 5 May 2008
• Psychophysiological correlates of dissociation, handedness, and hemispheric lateralization. 29 Apr 2008
• Dissociated functional brain abnormalities of inhibition in boys with pure conduct disorder and in boys with pure attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. 13 Apr 2008
• Status dissociatus evolving from REM sleep behaviour disorder in multiple system atrophy. 6 Apr 2008

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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