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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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Zygon, 2022 Richard Dawkins, in his The God Delusion, argued strongly for atheism. Alister McGrath picked up the challenge and argued that Dawkins is wrong and that his arguments are very weak.
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European Psychiatry, 2022 Introduction The study of the premanifest stages of the first psychotic episode with religious delusion is relevant due to the lack of clarity in differentiating normal religiosity from pathological and, as a consequence, a relatively longer period of ...
V. Kaleda +3 more
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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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Indian Journal of Dermatology, 2013 Patients with delusions of parasitosis (DOP) are more commonly recognized in dermatology practices today. However, dermatologists may feel uncomfortable treating these patients because of the psychiatric nature of their disorder. As a result of the fact that DOP patients strongly prefer to seek treatment from dermatologists rather than mental health ...
Jillian W Wong, John YM Koo
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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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