This chapter describes the features of dissociative schizophrenia and the clinical model and research data supporting its existence. In classical dissociative identity disorder (DID), the characteristic symptoms are due to full switches of executive control between highly structured, personified, and ...
The activated areas include the following: the primary sensory and motor cortex, likely associated with characteristic facial movements made during switching; the nucleus accumbens bilaterally, possibly associated with aspects of reward connected with switching; and prefrontal sites, presumably associated ...
DISSOCIATIVEDISORDER Lossofunitarysenseofselfasasinglehumanbeingwithasinglebasicpersonality Arisesasadefensemechanism Contradictoryrepresentationsoftheself,whichconflictwitheachother,arekeptinseparatecompartments Types:1.DissociativeAmnesia2.DissociativeFugue3.DissociativeIdentityDO4.DepersonalizationDO Dissocia...
After a while, however, the patient shows significant signs of confusion or distress because he or she cannot remember recent events, or realizes a complete sense of identity is missing. This amnesia is a characteristic symptom of the disorder. Demographics Dissociative fugue is a rare disorder ...
with accompanying reintegration of their separate personalities. Some have speculated that the increase in amplitudes of lower (lowα–θ) frequencies during NF sessions results in an EEG pattern characteristic of childhood when the trauma occurred and, therefore, enables recall of the trauma (i.e....
Somatoform dissociation, which can be measured with the Somatoform Dissociation Questionnaire (SDQ-20), is highly characteristic of dissociative disorder patients, and a core feature in many patients with somatoform disorders and in a subgroup of patients with eating disorders. It is strongly associated...
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) criteria in DSM-5 included a dissociative diagnostic subtype characterized by a depersonalization item and a derealization item. Researchers have queried whether this was too restrictive, as alternative dissociative symptomatology may also be characteristic of the subtype...
A chaotic eating pattern, weight-control measures, and irrational ideas about one's figure, appearance, and weight are characteristic of the eating disorder bulimia nervosa (APA, 1994). Normally, periods of sparse eating alternate with binge eating episodes (bulimia literally means “as hungry as ...
The fifth and most recent edition, known as the DSM-V, was published in 2013. The DSM-V gives the characteristic symptoms for both during the dissociative fugue state, as well as after. Symptoms During the Fugue State According to the DSM-V, during the fugue state patients experience:...
This finding parallels our hypotheses, where those functions subtending consciousness and formation of perspective are likely altered in depersonalization responses, characteristic of PTSD+DS. In support of this finding, Medford et al (2006) report altered precuneus activity in depersonalization disorder ...