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  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Background:

  • Dissociative disorders involve disruptions in self and world experience.
  • Interoception, the sense of the body's internal state, is crucial for homeostasis, emotion, memory, and self-representation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine dissociative symptoms using an interoception framework.
  • To understand the neurophysiological mechanisms of dissociation through interoceptive processing.

Main Methods:

  • The study adopts a transdiagnostic framework.
  • It reviews the role of interoception in dissociative symptoms.

Main Results:

  • Dissociative symptoms correlate with reduced autonomic reactivity and interoceptive precision.
  • Altered interoceptive processing may lead to detachment, blunted emotions, and altered recall.

Conclusions:

  • Understanding interoceptive integration deficits offers insights into dissociative disorders.
  • Targeting interoceptive processing may present new therapeutic avenues for dissociation.