Autonomic and subjective responsivity to emotional images in people with dissociative seizures.

ABSTRACT: People with dissociative seizures (DS) report a range of difficulties in emotional functioning and exhibit altered responding to emotional facial expressions in experimental tasks. We extended this research by investigating subjective and autonomic reactivity (ratings of emotional valence, arousal and skin conductance responses [SCRs]) to general emotional images in 39 people with DS relative to 42 healthy control participants, whilst controlling for anxiety, depression, cognitive functioning and, where relevant, medication use. It was predicted that greater subjective negativity and arousal and increased SCRs in response to the affective pictures would be observed in the DS group. The DS group as a whole did not differ from controls in their subjective responses of valence and arousal. Ho

SUBMITTER: Pick S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6001553 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature