Skin conductance and memory fragmentation after exposure to an emotional film clip in depersonalization disorder

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 177, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 342-349

  Giesbrecht, Timo ^a,b   Merckelbach, Harald ^b   van Oorsouw, Kim ^b   Simeon, Daphne ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Depersonalization; Memory fragmentation; Skin conductance; Time course of affective responding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BECK ANXIETY INVENTORY; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPERSONALIZATION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; SELF REPORT; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STIMULUS;

ADULT; DEPERSONALIZATION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MOTION PICTURES AS TOPIC; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF DISCLOSURE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77952671752     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2010.03.010     Document Type: Article

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