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Can Inter-Identity Amnesia in Dissociative Identity Disorder be Accurately Described by Current Studies? Ioanna Georgopoulos Introduction Procedure Subjects (31 DID patients, 25 controls, and 25 simulators) were taught two word lists as shown below. DID patients List A List B Controls Identity 1 Normal ID Identity 2 Normal ID Normal ID Simulated “amnesic” ID •Sample word lists are shown at right List A List B 2 1 Sample word lists •The researchers used two unshared categories, vegetables and animals. •An unshared category was used as a control. List A contained names of flowers and list B of furniture. DID patients List A List B broccoli cabbage cat zebra tulip chair Directed forgetting between, but not within, dissociative personality states Elzinga et al, 2003 •12 DID patients were tested on a directedforgetting task. •They were taught nonsense word pairs and told to specifically remember or forget them when switching states. Procedural memory in dissociative identity disorder: When can interidentity amnesia be truly established? Huntjens et al, 2005b Procedure •Subjects (31 patients, 25 simulators, and 25 controls) were given a serial reaction time task (shown below). •The task involves pressing the letter on the keyboard that corresponds to the position on the screen (Z,X,N,M). •Response time was measured and analyzed across trials. •Procedures vary considerably between studies, so 3 representative papers are presented here that each employ different procedures and memory tasks. Trial Task Baseline Random sequence Trial 1a A series of 12 positions were shown 10 times for each trial (same for all three trials) Trial 2a Trial 3a Personality Switch Patients and simulators switched personalities, controls took break Trial 1b The same exact sequence was shown as in trials 1a, 2a, and 3a X Future Experiments •Experiments should be simulation-resistant to focus on actual memory processes. •Limitations on subjects should be relieved to increase the sample size. •More objective memory tests need to be devised to avoid patient bias. •fMRI studies should focus on changes between personality states. References Results Personality A 1000 800 600 400 200 0 Personality B Ra nd om b a Tri al 3 Tri al 3 a Tri al 2 b a Tri al 1 Controls Simulators Patients lin e Response time (ms) Emotional Forget Neutral Forget •This study is inconclusive because of the small sample size and lack of control subjects. •Results show that inter-identity amnesia does not occur. •However, patients do report having no knowledge of events taking place in other personalities. •It is possible that patients have an incorrect belief about their memory function, not a problem with the memory function itself. A new random sequence used Random M N Response Time on a Serial Reaction Time Task •To-be-forgotten words were in fact forgotten when patients switched states regardless of emotional valence. To-beremembered words were also lost across states, but to a lesser degree. Conclusions Trial 3b Z State 1 State 2 Outline of Procedure Trial 2b Ba se Inconclusive 40 30 20 10 0 Emotional Remember 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Percent Cued Recall on a Directed Forgetting Task Neutral Remember Number of Recent Articles Dealing with Inter-Identity Amnesia in Dissociative Identity Disorder Percent Cued Recall •The resulting articles were then limited to those produced in the last ten years. Simulators • Patients showed interference between words learned in list A and list B. • Interference indicates that words from list A taught in personality one were recalled by personality two. • Patients showed a reduced capacity to recognize and recall words in general. Serial reaction time task •Pubmed was used with search terms “dissociative identity disorder” and amnesia Controls Inconclusive Evidence Regarding Inter-Identity Amnesia Method Against 3 0 Results Supporting 4 Tri al 2 Does inter-identity amnesia occur in dissociative identity disorder patients? 5 Simulators Procedure Problem List-Dependent Recall for Shared Categories b •DID often involves various types of amnesia •Loss of memory for current episodes •Loss of autobiographical memory (usually from childhood) •Appearance of pseudo-memories •Symmetric amnesia •Asymmetric amnesia •Only people who could fully control and maintain identity switch were chosen. •Not all identities for each patient were tested. •Patients were chosen so that one of the identities did not know of the others. •Small sample sizes, typically less than 30 cases at once, were tested. •It is often difficult to tell if the memory tests were measuring the proper form of memory and nothing else because simulation is possible. •Patients did not come from a very diverse background. •Details about subjects were largely based on selfreport. Huntjens et al, 2003 •DID patients lose their lives to suicide at a higher rate than patients suffering from any other psychiatric disorder. •Two conflicting theories •Posttraumatic model – personality is divided as a protective reaction to trauma. Memories of traumatic events are stored in dissociated states. •Sociocognitive model – multiple identities are created and maintained in response to therapist influences, media portrayals and cultural expectations. Interidentity amnesia for neutral, episodic information in dissociative identity disorder Tri al 1 •It affects 1% of the population, making it as prevalent as other debilitating mental health disorders such as schizophrenia Limitations of These Studies Mean Scores •Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is defined as “a failure to integrate various aspects of identity, memory, and consciousness.” Evidence Against Inter-Identity Amnesia •The jump in the graph for patients indicates that whatever was learned in the first state was lost in the switch to the second. •However, the identical jump in the simulators makes it unclear if the patients truly forgot what was learned or were also simulating amnesia. Bear MF, Connors BW, Paradiso MA (2001) Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. 2nd Edition. Dorahy MJ (2001) Dissociative identity disorder and memory dysfunction: the current state of experimental research and its future directions. 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