"AFFECT-RELATED CHANGES IN PATIENTS WITH DISSOCIATIVE AMNESIA"
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Dissociative amnesia is a psychiatric syndrome accompanied by severe memory disturbances which are usually retrograde and restricted to the autobiographical domain.If the amnesia relates to the whole past life, self-consciousness ("autonoetic consciousness") is considerably disturbed.Due to the fact that autobiographical memories are usually affect-related, it is of interest to investigate whether a reason for the patients' memory disturbances can be sought in changes in affect and emotion.We therefore investigated possible affect-related changes in 34 patients with a diagnosis of dissociative amnesia using neuropsychological tests and questionnaires.Patients: The patients were between 11 and 54 years of age at the time of their investigation (mean age: 37 years).All but one of them had live-long retrograde amnesia; the exception had continuous anterograde amnesia (a very rare, but existing form of dissociative amnesia).The majority of the patients had deficits in attention and concentration (20 patients; 59%).With respect to affect-related changes, many of the patients (24 patients; 71%) had a blunt affect in interviews and conversations; and in affect-related tests (Florida Affect Battery; Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test; Toronto-Alexithymia-Scale), again most of them (26 patients; 76.5%) showed remarkable deficits.Furthermore, in questionnaires used to investigate personality dimensions (Freiburg-Personality-Inventory; Symptom-Check-List 90; Dissociative Experiences Scale-II; Beck Depression Inventory; Interpersonal Reactivity Index), the clear majority (>75% of the patients tested with these instruments) manifested deviances suggestive of affect-related changes (tendencies of depression, anxiety, somatization, alexithymia).It is concluded that the old concepts for dissociative amnesia, namely 'hysteria' and that patients with this disease condition demonstrate a kind of 'belle indifference' towards their social environment, are still valid and may contribute significantly to their lack of self-or autonoetic consciousness.Furthermore, their usually selective autobiographical retrograde amnesia seems to be attributable to a desynchronization between affect-related and memory-processing regions of the brain, a hypothesis which is confirmed by more recent functional neuroimaging data in patients with dissociative amnesia.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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