Egocentric virtual maze learning in adult survivors of childhood abuse with dissociative disorders: Evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 116-124

  Weniger, Godehard ^a   Siemerkus, Jakob ^a,b   Barke, Antonia ^b   Lange, Claudia ^b   Ruhleder, Mirjana ^b   Sachsse, Ulrich ^c   Schmidt Samoa, Carsten ^b   Dechent, Peter ^b   Irle, Eva ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c Asklepios Psychiatric Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Borderline personality disorder; Dissociative amnesia; Dissociative identity disorder; Spatial memory; Trauma; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD NEGLECT; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSOCIATIVE AMNESIA; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MULTIPLE PERSONALITY; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARIETAL LOBE; PARIETO-OCCIPITAL SULCUS; PHYSICAL ABUSE; PRECUNEUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS POSTERIOR NUCLEUS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAZE LEARNING; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SURVIVORS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876812021     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: 18727506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2012.11.004     Document Type: Article

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