Dissociative disorders are a group of mental disorders defined as "... a disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception of the environment." All dissociative disorders cause significant interference...

Dissociation is the process by which a chemical combination breaks up into simpler constituents. Dissociation may be accomplished by the addition of energy, as in the case of gaseous molecules dissociated by heat; or by the action of a solvent on a...

Spared performance on one task with disrupted performance on a different task in a brain-damaged patient. Such single dissociations cannot prove that the two tasks require independent processes, since differences in difficulty between the tasks could...

Separation or “isolation” of mental processes in such a way that they split off from the main personality or lose their normal thought-affect...

Dissociation has different meanings in different...

Police detained about 200 protesters who took part in an illegal demonstration Saturday against the World Economic Forum, which starts next week in eastern Switzerland.Police prevented an initial group of 100 people from marching through the city. Later, a larger number of protesters throwing bottles...

A woman accused of killing an expectant mother and cutting the baby from her womb has given different accounts of the crime, but an expert witness testified Wednesday that's not unusual for someone who is delusional.Dr. Vilayanur Ramachandran said that "fluctuating" beliefs are consistent with...

Georgia football great Herschel Walker has multiple personalities — a revelation in an upcoming book that surprises the man who coached the 1982 Heisman Trophy winner."That's all news to me," former Georgia coach Vince Dooley said in Friday editions of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "All I...