Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spring Toan/Pexels You’re scrolling through social media and, (seemingly) suddenly, two hours have passed. What happened?

Many medical terms have evolved or changed over the years to reflect advancements in medical knowledge or to reduce stigma. For example, what was once called consumption is now known to be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The signature of dissociation is a fuzzy state of absentee consciousness, a trance-like quality where there seems to be nobody ...

In psychiatry, there’s no more controversial diagnosis than dissociative identity disorder (DID), the disorder formerly known as multiple personality disorder (MPD). First appearing in the third ...

Earlier this year, Dr. Matthew A. Robinson — a clinician and researcher at Harvard Medical School’s largest psychiatric facility, McLean Hospital — delivered a lecture to a room full of his peers. His ...

In my last post, Trauma's Negative Impact on Working Memory, I delved into variations in memory processing that are prevalent with trauma. This post builds on the concept by considering trauma and ...

Can a person naturally have multiple distinct accents? Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is a condition in which multiple different identity states coexist in the same individual and have their own ...

At 6am on a Monday morning, assaulted by the big light in my bedroom and barely able to sit up, I texted my best friend: ‘I can’t face the commute, I’m literally dissociating right now.’ But was I ...

You’re scrolling through social media and, (seemingly) suddenly, two hours have passed. What happened? According to researchers at the University of Washington, you might have been dissociating. Which ...