Pseudoseizures and dissociative disorders: a common mechanism involving traumatic experiences

Pseudoseizures and dissociative disorders: a common mechanism involving traumatic experiences

Patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (pseudoseizures) have been diagnosed as having conversion disorder or dissociative disorder. Pseudoseizure patients frequently report a history of physical and sexual abuse, and traumatic experience is considered part of the mechanism for producing dissociation. Pseudoseizures may be a manifestation of dissociative disorder, especially when a his...

Sleep-related Violence, Dissociative Experiences, and Childhood Traumatic Events

Aviolent behavior during sleep includes a broad range of behaviors: self-mutilation, sexual assault, murder attempt, murder and suicide. The violent behavior during sleep (VBS) can be directed to other subjects, to objects, or to self (1). Recently, Ohayon et al (2) reported violent behavior during sleep as 2 % of the population. They found that night terrors, daytime sleepiness, sleep talking,...

Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders

Abnormal eating and dissociative experiences.

A total of 656 male and female college students completed the Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI) and a modified version of the Dissociative Experiences Scale (M-DES). There were significant correlations between dissociative experiences and each of the EDI subscales, especially for women. Even among women, however, dissociation was more strongly related to aspects of ego dysfunction than to abnorma...

Neuroimaging and Dissociative Disorders

Although they were for a while “dissociated” (Spiegel, 2006) from the clinical and scientific arena, dissociative disorders have in the last several years received a renewed interest among several groups of researchers, who embarked on the work of identifying and describing their underlying neural correlates. Dissociative disorders are characterized by transient or chronic failures or disruptio...