Fact or factitious? a psychobiological study of authentic and simulated dissociative identity States

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Reinders, A A T S ^a,b   Willemsen, Antoon T M ^b   Vos, Herry P J ^c   den Boer, Johan A ^b   Nijenhuis, Ellert R S ^d  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Outpatient Department Addiction Clinic Groningen/Drenthe   (Netherlands)

^d Top Referent Trauma Center Mental Health Care Drenthe   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MULTIPLE PERSONALITY; NEUROIMAGING; PSYCHOBIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SENSORY SYSTEM; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; EMOTIONS; FANTASY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); MEMORY, EPISODIC; MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 84863103701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039279     Document Type: Article

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