Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis’s scientific contributions

... 28,29 Referring to PTSD linked to repeated interpersonal traumatic experiences (PTSD-IT) and DDs (e.g., dissociative identity disorder [DID]), clinical literature posits at the base of these conditions a key role of a "structural dissociation." 30,31 This kind of structural dissociation is sustained by a complex system of dissociative symptoms including negative psychoform dissociative symptoms (e.g., amnesia and numbing), negative somatoform dissociative symptoms (e.g., anesthesia and sensory loss), positive psychoform dissociative symptoms (e.g., traumatic memories and nightmares), and positive somatoform dissociative symptoms (intrusions of sensorimotor aspects of traumatic reexperiences and pain). 31,32 Manifestation of dissociation in emotional contexts Dissociation affects different domains of human mental functioning (e.g., time perception, body representation, and identity), 4 including the emotional one. ...

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Neural responses to emotional stimuli across the dissociative spectrum: Common and specific mechanisms