Chronic illnesses often involve repeated hospitalization and invasive treatment procedures that can have a traumatic impact on child development. To explore possible consequences of treatment procedures, three groups of patients with congenital anomalies were examined longitudinally. At first admission, adolescents (ages 10-20, mean 15) with anorectal anomalies (n = 14), adolescents with Hirsch...

Affect dysregulation and dissociation may be associated with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and somatoform disorder (SoD). In this study, both under-regulation and over-regulation of affect and positive and negative somatoform and psychoform dissociative experiences were assessed. BPD and SoD diagnoses were confirmed or ruled out in 472 psychiatric inpatients using clinical interviews an...

Although dissociative phenomena are often transient features of mental states, existing measures of dissociation are designed to measure enduring traits. A new present-state self-report measure, sensitive to changes in dissociative states, was therefore developed and psychometrically validated. Fifty-six items were formulated to measure state features, and sorted according to seven subscales: d...

Dissociative disorders manifest as disruptions of the normal integration between memories of the past, awareness of identity and immediate sensations and control of bodily movements. Compared to developed western countries, it is more prevalent indeveloping countries. This study is undertaken to find the occurrence of dissociative disorder and significance of clinical presentations.The main obj...

BACKGROUND Potential acute protective functions of dissociation include modulation of stress-induced psychophysiological arousal. This study was designed to explore whether acute dissociative reactions during a stress experiment would override the effects of reexperiencing. METHODS Psychophysiological reactions during exposure to script-driven trauma imagery were studied in relation to acute ...

background: establishment of a patent airway and preserving spontaneous ventilation is a necessity in predicted difficult airway. airway regional blocks are commonly used in predicted difficult airway but the known limitations of these techniques propose the need to suggest alternative methods. this study compares subcutaneous dissociative conscious sedation (sdcs); a recently reported method o...