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New research shows different brain "signatures" for dissociative conditions, paving the way for more fine-tuned treatments down the road, experts say.

With trauma becoming a fact of life, dissociative symptoms that comes with it are also affecting brain in innumerable ways. Dissociation is the mental shift from the current reality. The recent study conducted explained this interwined phenomena. Find out more on this here.

Trauma can cause dissociative symptoms, such as an out-of-body experience or a feeling of emotional numbness, which can be helpful in the short term but damaging if they persist over an extended period of time.

Trauma can cause dissociative symptoms-;such as having an out-of-body experience, or feeling emotionally numb-;that may help an individual cope in the short term but can have negative impacts if the symptoms persist for a long period of time.

Psychological and biological measures of derealization, a type of dissociation, are linked to more severe psychiatric symptoms after a traumatic event.