title: Face processing in depersonalization: an fMRI study of the unfamiliar self.
abstract: Depersonalization disorder (DPD) is characterized by a core sense of unfamiliarity. Nine DPD participants and 10 healthy controls underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging while viewing self and unfamiliar faces. Compared with control subjects, the DPD group exhibited significantly greater activation in several brain regions in response to self vs. stranger faces. Implications are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT 06117, USA. Electronic address: ketay@hartford.edu.
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ketay
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Holly K
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Hamilton
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
authors.forename: Brian W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Haas
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Daphne
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Simeon
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D003861:Depersonalization / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Depersonalization; Self; Unfamiliarity