Contributions of Traumatic Stress Studies to the Neurobiology of Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders: Implications for Schizophrenia

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Differentiation of abnormal thought processes in dissociative disorders and schizophrenia – vignettes Schizophrenia research: From psychosocial events to traumatic stress Effects of traumatic stress on psychobiological systems Pharmacologically induced dissociation Neurotransmitters in dissociation and psychosis Different neural circuits in schizophrenia and dissociative disorders Heterogeneity of trauma response: Neural circuits in dissociative disorders and other trauma‐related disorders Vulnerable phenotypes Concluding remarks References Introduction Differentiation of abnormal thought processes in dissociative disorders and schizophrenia – vignettes Schizophrenia research: From psychosocial events to traumatic stress Effects of traumatic stress on psychobiological systems Pharmacologically induced dissociation Neurotransmitters in dissociation and psychosis Different neural circuits in schizophrenia and dissociative disorders Heterogeneity of trauma response: Neural circuits in dissociative disorders and other trauma‐related disorders Vulnerable phenotypes Concluding remarks References