Childhood trauma and dissociation in women with pseudoseizure-type conversion disorder

Dissociation in patients with dissociative seizures: relationships with trauma and seizure symptoms

“…The study supported the proposal that a variety of types of psychological dissociation are more common in patients with DS, compared to healthy individuals. The findings support and extend previous research into dissociative phenomena in patients with DS compared to healthy controls on measures such as the DIS-Q (e.g., Ozcetin et al, 2009;van der Kruijs et al, 2012) and DES (e.g., Goldstein et al, 2000;O'Brien et al, 2015). Previous negative findings in some studies which compared patients with ES and DS could be due to organicallymediated symptoms superficially resembling dissociation occurring during some ES (Medford, 2014).…”

Predicting a dissociative disorder from type of childhood maltreatment and abuser–abused relational tie

“…Sar et al (2006) demonstrated that emotional neglect (but not emotional abuse) predicted a DD diagnosis in college students. Ozcetin et al (2009) found that emotional abuse and emotional neglect were significantly higher in women with pseudoseizure-type conversion disorder than in healthy controls. More recently, Kilic et al (2014) demonstrated that childhood emotional neglect predicted somatoform dissociation in women with fibromyalgia or rheumatoid arthritis.…”

Stressful life events and maltreatment in conversion (functional neurological) disorder: systematic review and meta-analysis of case-control studies

“…Thirty-one studies included adult subjects (mean age 37.1 yrs, range 18-77yrs) [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][44][45][46][48][49][50][51][52][54][55][56][57][58][59][60] , whereas the remaining three studies came from a paediatric setting (mean age 13.7 yrs, range 9-18 yrs) 43,47,53 . In both the cases and control samples, most subjects were female (79.7% cases vs 72.2% controls).…”