Epidemiology of Dissociative Disorders: An Overview

Dissociative identity disorder: An empirical overview.

OBJECTIVE Despite its long and auspicious place in the history of psychiatry, dissociative identity disorder (DID) has been associated with controversy. This paper aims to examine the empirical data related to DID and outline the contextual challenges to its scientific investigation. METHODS The overview is limited to DID-specific research in which one or more of the following conditions are ...

Dissociative Recombination Mechanisms An Introduction and Overview

Neurobiology of dissociative disorders

Recent advances in neurosciences urge us to reconsider the existing links between organic causes and clinical findings of dissociative disorders. The clinical heterogeneity of these disorders is well known. Furthermore, the present neurobiological data are specific to only some dissociative disorders, which question the usefulness of an integrative approach for these data. Several studies sugge...

Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders

P61: Pandard Syndrome, Disorders and Treatments Available: An Overview Article

Pendard syndrome is a genetic disorder that is usually associated with hearing loss in children and thyroid status called goiter, and sometimes affects the balance of the person. Researchers estimate that 7 to 8 percent of the total congenital hearing loss is Pandard's syndrome. A sign that a person may have mutated the SLC26A4 gene is a family history of hearing loss in the early days. Another...