Switch Function and Pathological Dissociation in Acute Psychiatric Inpatients.

ABSTRACT: Swift switching, along with atypical ability on updating and inhibition, has been found in non-clinical dissociators. However, whether swift switching is a cognitive endophenotype that intertwines with traumatisation and pathological dissociation remains unknown. Unspecified acute psychiatric patients were recruited to verify a hypothesis that pathological dissociation is associated with swift switching and traumatisation may explain this relationship. Behavioural measures of intellectual function and three executive functions including updating, switching and inhibition were administered, together with standardised scales to evaluate pathological dissociation and traumatisation. Our results showed superior control ability on switching and updating in inpatients who displayed more symptoms

SUBMITTER: Chiu CD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4849636 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature