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The Neuropsychiatry of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Why many DID Patients Switch Personalities and Forget about the Previous Personality while under the Influence of one Personality?
- Source :
- Journal of Cell Science & Therapy.
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- OMICS Publishing Group, 2017.
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Abstract
- Little has been known about the possible brain changes in the patients suffering from the psychiatric illness called Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). This review suggests that the patients of DID have structural changes in the limbic system–hippocampus and amygdala -and the cortex. Blood flow is also altered in the orbito-frontal cortex. Another interesting finding of this review is that the glutamate release is found to be the cause of the dissociative symptoms. Furthermore, this review also highlights that in some DID patients the dorsolateral prefrontal and parietal cortex are activated. The limbic system especially the amygdala and the dorsolateral prefrontal and parietal cortex are associated with the short term and working memory, while the hippocampus is associated with long-term memory. All of these regions are somehow affected in the DID patient’s brain. Thus, this explains the symptoms of the multiple personality changes and forgetting about the previous personality. However, the future studies will broaden our knowledge about the complete neuropsychiatry of this unique medical illness.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Working memory
Hippocampus
Posterior parietal cortex
02 engineering and technology
medicine.disease
Amygdala
Personality changes
Limbic system
medicine.anatomical_structure
Dissociative identity disorder
020204 information systems
Cortex (anatomy)
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
medicine
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
Psychiatry
Psychology
Neuroscience
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21577013
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Cell Science & Therapy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........39ec860afd032a1255cb3da77faecab0