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A case report of Folie à deux with delusion of pregnancy
Kerala Journal of Psychiatry, 2020 Pseudocyesis is common, whereas delusion of pregnancy is a rare psychopathology. The shared delusion of pregnancy is even rarer. We present a case from a tribal community where a wife shares her husband's delusion.
Poulose Merin, Krishnan Hareesh
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Risky decision-making and delusion proneness: An initial examination
Heliyon, 2019 Delusion proneness is an individual-differences characteristic, existing on a continuum from no delusional thoughts to a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Previous research found individuals high in delusion proneness request less information to make decisions,
Meisha Runyon, Melissa T. Buelow
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PLoS ONE, 2021 BackgroundDelusion occupies an important position in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with psychoses. Although Karl Jaspers' concept of the primary delusion (PD) is a key hypothesis in descriptive phenomenology concerning the primordial experience
Naoki Hayashi +2 more
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Delusion as a folk psychological kind
Filosofia Unisinos, 2016 In this paper I discuss the scientific respectability of delusion as a psychiatric category. First, I present the essentialist objection to the natural kindhood of psychiatric categories, as well as non-essentialism about natural kinds as a response to ...
Jose Eduardo Porcher
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Filosofia Unisinos, 2016 In this paper we have two main aims. First, we present an account of mood-congruent delusions in depression (hereafter, depressive delusions). We propose that depressive delusions constitute acknowledgements of self-related beliefs acquired as a result of a negatively biased learning process.
ANTROBUS M, BORTOLOTTI L
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Correlation between white matter hyperintensity and delusional symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease
BMC Psychiatry, 2023 Background Patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) often exhibit neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS), particularly delusions. Previous studies have shown an association between white matter hyperintensities (WMH) and specific NPS.
Wei Fan +6 more
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BJPsych Open, 2019 BackgroundThe period before the formation of a persecutory delusion may provide causal insights. Patient accounts are invaluable in informing this understanding.AimsTo inform the understanding of delusion formation, we asked patients about the occurrence
Daniel Freeman +14 more
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The Role of Emotions in Delusion Formation
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2016 The text concerns the role of emotions in delusion formation. Provided are definitions from DSM-V and DSM-IV-R and the problems found in those definitions.
Smurzyńska Adrianna
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Scientific Reports, 2022 The rapid spread of conspiracy ideas associated with the recent COVID-19 pandemic represents a major threat to the ongoing and coming vaccination programs.
K. Acar +6 more
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Erotomania: A Rare Psychiatric Condition- A Case Series [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2022 Erotomania is a rare psychiatric condition which is characterised by the delusion that a person who is of a higher social status is in love with them. Three cases of secondary erotomania have been discussed which includes a 26-year-old female patient who
Amritha Chandrasekaran Sashikar +2 more
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