People with dissociative identity disorder develop fractured parts of their identity to cope with trauma, which can cause amnesia and disconnect.

In psychiatry, there’s no more controversial diagnosis than dissociative identity disorder (DID), the disorder formerly known as multiple personality disorder (MPD). First appearing in the third ...

AnnaLynne McCord, who appeared in Nip/Tuck and 90210, revealed that she was recently diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. In a new interview, she shared some details about what her life is ...

Derived from Greek, the term amnesia is used to describe memory impairment that is characterized by the inability to successfully recall previously learned information and learn new information. To be ...

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Rami Malek’s Elliot Alderson on Mr. Robot suffers dissociative identity disorder. Pic credit: USA Network Last night’s two-part Mr. Robot series finale took viewers on a tour of Elliot Alderson’s ...

Trauma-related dissociation consists of several subtypes, with unique brain signatures depending on type of dissociative disorders, new research suggests. Results from a neuroimaging study showed that ...