Service innovations: A depersonalisation research unit progress report

Abstract

Depersonalisation was described clinically over 100 years ago, yet there has been little research into this interesting but distressing psychiatric disorder. The symptom of depersonalisation can occur alone or in the context of other psychiatric and neurological illnesses and is characterised by the experience of detachment from one's senses and the outside environment, and may be present for several years without remission. Two years after the establishment of the depersonalisation research unit at the Maudsley Hospital, London, we report on current neurobiological and clinical research findings, including functional magnetic resonance imaging, psychophysiology and neuroendocrinology and progress regarding the development of effective treatments.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/pb.25.3.105
Divisions: College of Health & Life Sciences > Clinical and Systems Neuroscience
College of Health & Life Sciences > School of Psychology
Additional Information: COPYRIGHT: © 2000, The Royal College of Psychiatrists This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
Publication ISSN: 2053-4876
Last Modified: 04 Oct 2024 16:43
Date Deposited: 04 Apr 2019 13:25
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Published Date: 2001
Authors: Phillips, M.L.
Hunter, E.
Lambert, M.V.
Medford, N.
Sierra-Siegert, M.
Senior, C. (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-2155-4139)
David, A.S.

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