Emotional learning during dissociative states in borderline personality disorder.
Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience May 1, 2009 U. Ebner-Priemer, Jana Mauchnik, N. Kleindienst et al.
BACKGROUND Neurobiological findings and clinical data suggest that dissociative experience inhibits conditioning processes, but experimental studies are lacking. The aim of our study was to determine whether high states of dissociative experience would specifically alter emotional learning, but not declarative knowledge. METHODS We used an aversive differential delay conditioning procedure in...