Inter-identity autobiographical amnesia in patients with dissociative identity disorder

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Huntjens, Rafaële J C ^a   Verschuere, Bruno ^b,c,d   McNally, Richard J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCEALED INFORMATION TASK; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTER IDENTITY AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AMNESIA; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; MULTIPLE PERSONALITY; RECOGNITION; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AMNESIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84864007978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040580     Document Type: Article

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