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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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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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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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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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Delusion of Pregnancy and Pseudocyesis: A Diagnostic Dilemma
Journal of Karnali Academy of Health Sciences, 2021 Delusion of pregnancy and pseudocyesis are found to be relatively common in the developing world but the reported cases regarding the former is rare in the context of Nepal.
Kamal Ghimire +2 more
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BMC Psychiatry, 2023 Background Cotard’s Syndrome (CS) is a rare clinical entity where patients can report nihilistic, delusional beliefs that they are already dead. Curiously, while weight loss, dehydration, and metabolic derangements have been described as discussed above,
Christopher Robertson, Thomas Dunn
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Capgras delusion in postpartum psychosis: a case report
Annals of General Psychiatry, 2021 Background Capgras delusion is one of the delusional misidentification syndromes characterized by the belief by the patient that the close person is replaced by an imposter who looks physically the same. It rarely occurs in Postpartum Psychosis.
Sulochana Joshi +3 more
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European Psychiatry, 2022 Introduction The prevalence of substance use disorder has rapidly increased recently. It is believed that the occurrence of mental disorders is strongly associated with substance use. Objectives To identify prevelance of different psychiatric mobidity &
A. Berkat, M. Abidi
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The Status of Delusion in the Light of Marcus's Revisionary Proposals [PDF]
, 2013 Marcus’s view of belief is applied to the debate that centers on the question, “Are delusions beliefs?” Two consequences of this are that i) the question, “Are delusions beliefs?” needs rephrasing and ii) the answer is, “No, some delusional patients do ...
Sam Wilkinson +2 more
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