Two book chapters are forthcoming and will be made available in the online library as soon as possible.
Read MoreTo share knowledge with a wider audience, we are developing online classes. The first modules focus on the ecology of dissociation in the context of trauma.
Read MoreTwo research studies (2015, 2019) have found that the quality of abnormal psychology and graduate psychopathology textbook chapters on childhood maltreatment and dissociative disorders is oftentimes poor. This state of affairs is most worrisome, since many students of psychology and psychiatry who are introduced to these topics will get to study the involved chapters.
Read MoreSimone Reinders, Onno van der Hart, Eline Vissia, and I wrote a letter to the Editor of the European Journal of Psychotraumatology in response to a recent article by Huntjens and colleagues that was published in this journal.
Read MoreWe investigated whether patients with complex interpersonal trauma engage neural networks that are commonly activated during cognitive reappraisal and responding naturally to affect-laden images. In this naturalistic study, we examined whether trauma treatment not only reduces symptoms but also changes neural networks involved in emotional control.
Read MoreThe aim of this study was to investigate whether data-driven pattern recognition methodologies applied to structural brain images can provide bio- markers to aid DID diagnosis.
Read MoreThe objective of the research was to examine the two constitutes of cortical volume (CV), that is, cortical thickness (CT) and surface area (SA), in individuals with dissociative identity disorder (DID) with the view of gaining important novel insights into the underlying neurobiological mechanisms mediating DID.
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