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Delusional (Paranoid) Disorders

The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1988
The group of paranoid or delusional disorders, although not nearly as common as the mood and schizophrenic disorders, may be much more frequent than has usually been thought. DSM-III R has made a decisive step in recognizably defining at least one group of them.
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The Classification of Delusional Disorders

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1995
Recognition of a delusion in a psychiatric illness places that illness in the broad category of psychotic disorders. The form and content of the delusion are, in themselves, however, insufficient to make a detailed diagnosis, and it is the context of the delusion within a particular disorder that is more pathognomonic.
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Age at onset of delusional disorder is dependent on the delusional theme

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 1998
The main aim of this study was to investigate whether or not subtypes of delusional disorder diagnosed by DSM‐III‐R show differences in age at onset and sex distribution. All out‐patients first seen at the psychiatry clinic between 1989 and 1994 were diagnosed by DSM‐III‐R.
N, Yamada, S, Nakajima, T, Noguchi
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Delusional disorders

2020
Abstract Delusional disorders are psychotic disorders, characterized by well-systematized and long-lasting delusions, whereas other mental and personality domains usually remain intact. Their main characteristics are: (1) chronicity—they may last several months, years, or decades, and in some patients even lifelong; (2) stability—they ...
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[Delusional disorders].

La Revue du praticien, 2015
Delusional disorders are divided in French nosography into three clinical disease entities: paranoid delusions, psychose hallucinatoire chronique, and paraphrenia. Their common characteristics are a late start, a chronic evolution, no cognitive impairment and no dissociation.
Marion, Garnier, Pierre-Michel, Llorca
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Cognitive Processes in Delusional Disorders

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1996
BackgroundStudies of schizophrenics with persecutory delusions have shown cognitive biases in subjects who are deluded. It has been suggested that their delusions defend against depression. This study challenges the assumption that delusional disorder (DD) patients are covertly depressed.MethodClinical and demographic data and responses to ...
C, Fear, H, Sharp, D, Healy
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Risperidone for the treatment of delusional disorder

International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 2002
The overlap between diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia and delusional disorder (DD) may cause diagnostic confusion. This is important if response to treatment differs. Risperidone, an atypical antipsychotic, is established in the treatment of schizophrenia, although less so in other psychotic conditions.We report the case of a woman who developed DD,
Christopher F, Fear, Susan E, Libretto
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Delusional Thinking and Cognitive Disorder

Integrative Physiological & Behavioral Science, 2005
A hypothesis is presented regarding the genesis of paranoid delusion that attempts to take into account certain data. The data of interest are (a) the failure to find evidence of cognitive impairment in diagnosed paranoid patients, (b) the evidence of perceptual disorder as a primary and prior condition in the natural history of the clinical ...
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Neuropsychological aspects of delusional disorder

Current Psychiatry Reports, 2008
Delusional disorders (DDs) are clinically rare syndromes characterized by false beliefs that are held with firm conviction despite counterevidence. The neuropsychology of DDs is poorly understood. Two partially opposing models--a cognitive bias model and a cognitive deficit model--have received mixed empiric support, partly because most research has ...
Mona, Abdel-Hamid, Martin, Brüne
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Delusional Disorder and the Law

Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 2005
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