Opposite brain emotion-regulation patterns in identity states of dissociative identity disorder: A PET study and neurobiological model

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 223, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 236-243

  Reinders, Antje A T S ^a,b   Willemsen, Antoon T M ^b   den Boer, Johan A ^b   Vos, Herry P J ^c   Veltman, Dick J ^d   Loewenstein, Richard J ^e  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissociative identity disorder (DID); Emotional overmodulation; Emotional undermodulation; Etiology; Neuroimaging; Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDENTITY; INSULA; MULTIPLE PERSONALITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER (DID); EMOTIONAL OVERMODULATION; EMOTIONAL UNDERMODULATION; ETIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD);

ADULT; AMYGDALA; AROUSAL; BRAIN; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84905175822     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: 18727506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2014.05.005     Document Type: Article

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