Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Visual imagery and depersonalisation.

M V Lambert1, C Senior, M L Phillips

  • 1Depersonalisation Research Unit, Division of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK.

Psychopathology
|January 19, 2002
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

HIV testing in primary care in a low-prevalence area of Northeast England.

HIV medicine·2025
Same author

Scrolling, Chatting, and Posting: Longitudinal Changes in Distinct Social Media Behaviors and Their Relationship With Psychological Distress and Mental Wellbeing in Adolescents.

Journal of adolescence·2025
Same author

Publisher Correction: Muscle abnormalities in Long COVID.

Nature communications·2025
Same author

Reply: Muscle abnormalities in Long COVID.

Nature communications·2025
Same author

British HIV Association guidelines on the management of opportunistic infection in people living with HIV: The clinical management of non-tuberculous mycobacteria 2024.

HIV medicine·2025
Same author

Anticoagulant rodenticide exposure in common buzzards: Impact of new rules for rodenticide use.

The Science of the total environment·2024
Same journal

Tourette syndrome and rage attacks - a longitudinal and cross-sectional study.

Psychopathology·2026
Same journal

Depressing temporal experiences: the COVID-19 Pandemic lockdown in Victoria, Australia.

Psychopathology·2026
Same journal

Involuntary hospitalization for treatment: Triangulation of Perspectives of patients, relatives, and professionals.

Psychopathology·2026
Same journal

Depersonalization, Emotion Embodiment, and Alexithymia in the General Population.

Psychopathology·2026
Same journal

Symptom course in psychiatric and neurodevelopmental diagnostic reasoning: an exploratory vignette-based study.

Psychopathology·2026
Same journal

Operationalizing the Whole of Psychic Life: Toward a Structured Framework for Psychopathology.

Psychopathology·2026
See all related articles

People with depersonalisation disorder (DD) experience impaired visual imagery, especially for self-related content. Despite subjective issues, their visual perception abilities remain intact, distinguishing imagery from perception.

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Psychiatry

Background:

  • Depersonalisation disorder (DD) is characterized by persistent feelings of detachment from oneself.
  • The relationship between subjective imagery deficits and objective perceptual abilities in DD is not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the association between self-reported imagery ability and symptoms in individuals with DD.
  • To compare the visual perception abilities of patients with DD to controls.

Main Methods:

  • Self-report questionnaires assessed imagery ability and symptoms in 28 individuals with DD.
  • A subgroup of 10 patients underwent neuropsychological testing of visual perception.
  • Comparison groups included age- and sex-matched healthy controls and patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Related Experiment Videos

Main Results:

  • Individuals with DD reported significantly impaired visual imagery generation, particularly for self and social stimuli.
  • Impaired imagery correlated with depersonalisation symptoms, dissociative symptoms, and depressed mood.
  • Neuropsychological tests revealed no deficits in visual perception in the patient subgroup compared to controls.

Conclusions:

  • Subjective visual imagery deficits in depersonalisation disorder are not indicative of underlying perceptual impairments.
  • Findings support a distinction between visual imagery generation and visual perception processes in DD.
  • This research contributes to understanding the cognitive profile of depersonalisation disorder.