Similar or Disparate Brain Patterns? The Intra-Personal EEG Variability of Three Women with Multiple Personality Disorder

Clinical EEG and Neuroscience

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 235-242

  Lapointe, A R ^a,d   Crayton, J W ^a   Devito, R ^b   Fichtner, C G ^c   Konopka, L M ^a,b,d  

^a HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Loyola University Medical   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d THE CHICAGO SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissociative Identity Disorder; Interpersonal EEG Variability; Intra personal EEG Variability; Multiple Personality Disorder; Quantitative EEG

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MULTIPLE PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; BRAIN; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33747111031     PISSN: 15500594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/155005940603700314     Document Type: Article

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