La despersonalización: aspectos clínicos y neurobiológicos

摘要: Introduction: Although described more than a century ago, depersonalization continues to be poorly understood and conceptualized phenomenon. Objective: To supply current vision of in the light descriptive psychopathology recent empirical developments neurobiology transcultural comparisons. Method: Selective review literature on with emphasis literature. Development conclusion: Research found moves along three tracks, from which these conclusions can extracted: (a) The phenomenon has complex structure characterized by several independent dimensions. In this sense it seems constitute syndrome symptom. (b) Recent neurobiological studies suggest existence functional disconnection between perception its affective concomitants renders conscious experience as devoid “emotional coloring”. (c) prevalence sensitive sociological cultural variables so that cultures high individualism seem confer vulnerability