Pain response in depersonalization: a functional imaging study using hypnosis in healthy subjects.
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 2007 Christian H Röder, Matthias Michal, G Overbeck et al.
Depersonalization (DP) is characterized by persistent or recurrent episodes of detachment from one's self with reduced pain perception being a common feature. Alterations in the body schema similar to the cortico-limbic disconnection syndrome of pain asymbolia are suggested to be responsible for DP. In this study we used hypnosis to induce DP in healthy subjects and to examine neural patterns...