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Delusion of Pregnancy: A Case Report and Literature Review [PDF]
Clinical Medicine Insights: Case Reports, 2023 Delusion of pregnancy is defined as a persistent belief that one is pregnant despite concrete evidence to the contrary. Despite being reported as an isolated event, delusion of pregnancy has been reported in many patients with underlying psychiatric ...
Soumitra Das +5 more
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Delusion of pregnancy: Conception in brain
Industrial Psychiatry Journal, 2022 Delusional disorders are common psychiatric disorders, but a delusion of pregnancy is a rare condition. Four cases that presented at a single tertiary care psychiatry center with delusion of pregnancy as a part of different psychological disorders are ...
Madhubrata Ray +3 more
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Delusion of pregnancy: Clinical case [PDF]
European Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction Delusion of pregnancy has been described as a false and fixed belief of being pregnant despite factual evidence to the contrary. Pseudocyesis is a condition in which the patient has all signs and symptoms of pregnancy except for the ...
M.F. Tascon Guerra +2 more
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Delusion of pregnancy : The role of prolactin [PDF]
European Psychiatry, 2022 Introduction A delusion of pregnancy is defined as a fixed false belief that one is pregnant in the absence of any evidence to support the pregnant state. Different mechanisms have been advanced to explain this phenomenon. Objectives Herein, we present
R. Jomli +5 more
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Delusion of pregnancy: Case series [PDF]
Indian Journal of PsychiatryDelusion of pregnancy is a relatively uncommon manifestation in psychotic patients. Differentiating it from closely related clinical entities like pseudocyesis/pseudopregnancy can be a challenge in clinical setting.
Markanday Sharma +3 more
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Delusion of Pregnancy: A Case Revisited [PDF]
Behavioural Neurology, 2013 A patient with delusion of pregnancy as an early feature of frontotemporal dementia with motor neurone disease (FTD/MND) who was reported some years ago was posthumously found to harbor the C9ORF72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion, now known to be the most common genetic cause of FTD/MND.
A. J. Larner
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A delusion of pregnancy in man with hyperprolactinemia [PDF]
European Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction A delusion of pregnancy in men has been rarely reported in psychiatric disorders. The literature on this delusion in male schizophrenia is limited. It was reported especially in medical conditions.
A. Aissa +5 more
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Delusion of pregnancy - what the literature says? [PDF]
European PsychiatryIntroduction Delusion of pregnancy (DP) is a false and persistent belief of being pregnant despite realistic evidence to the contrary. Being considered a rare phenomenon, more cases of DP have been reported lately, however the literature about this ...
I. M. Figueiredo
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Delusion of pregnancy in a 70-year-old male [PDF]
Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2017 Bhagyashree H. Gaikwad +4 more
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“I heard the heartbeat”- Psychophysiological and Sociocultural Determinants in Pseudocyesis and Delusion of Pregnancy [PDF]
European Psychiatry, 2022 Introduction Pseudocyesis and Delusion of Pregnancy are often conflated. Both presentations are associated with false beliefs of pregnancy in patients who are not pregnant.
A. Akira, A. Deka, D. Banayan
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