Oral manifestations of delusional infestation: a case series [PDF]
BMC Oral Health, 2022 Background Delusional infestation (DI) is a rare psychotic disorder characterized by a patient’s false belief that the body is infested with living or non-living organisms in the absence of clinical evidence of disease.
Zahra Alsafwani +4 more
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Ethical and Communicative Challenges in Informing Patients with Delusional Infestation: Insights from Moral Case Deliberation [PDF]
Acta Dermato-VenereologicaDelusional infestation is a rare psychiatric condition where patients falsely believe they are infested by organisms, often accompanied by physical symptoms such as pruritus.
Patrick M.J.H. Kemperman +4 more
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Delusional infestation: are you being bugged? [PDF]
Clinical Ophthalmology, 2015 Angeli Thakkar, Kenneth GJ Ooi, Nagi Assaad, Minas Coroneo Department of Ophthalmology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia Abstract: This case report documents a 58-year-old male who presented to the clinic with a 12-month history of a ...
Thakkar A, Ooi KG, Assaad N, Coroneo M
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Reframing delusional infestation: perspectives on unresolved puzzles [PDF]
Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 2018 Jianbo Lai,1–3 Zhe Xu,4,5 Yi Xu,1–3 Shaohua Hu1–3 1Department of Psychiatry, First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310003, China; 2The Key Laboratory of Mental Disorder’s Management in ...
Lai JB, Xu Z, Xu Y, Hu SH
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Lurasidone treatment for delusional infestation in a patient with dementia
Journal of Medical Sciences, 2023 Delusional infestation has been described since 1894. The variety of treatments of delusional infestation has been administered in different atypical antipsychotic agents.
Yu-Ning Her +3 more
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Delusional disorder of snake infestation – A diagnostic dilemma [PDF]
Kerala Journal of Psychiatry, 2019 Delusional infestation is a condition where one believes that he or she has a large parasitic infestation. We present a case with delusion of snake infestation as the only psychotic symptom without any primary psychotic or mood disorder.
K Priya Nayak, Safeekh A T
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From “cutaneous anthrax” to “primary delusional infestation” [PDF]
European Psychiatry, 2023 Introduction Primary delusional infestation is a rare psychiatric condition in which patients mistakenly believe that their skin or other body parts are infested by small, living organisms, despite the fact that no organisms can be found upon ...
I. A. Ferreira, A. Ponte
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A Longitudinal Case of Shared Delusional Infestation. [PDF]
Cureus, 2023 Delusional infestation disorders are characterized by fixed but false beliefs about infection by a parasite, insect, or other living organism. Shared psychotic disorders are characterized by a single delusion instigated by a "primary" index patient and then induced in one or more "secondary" persons.
Romine D, Winston Bush S, Reynolds JC.
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Neural correlates of delusional infestation responding to aripiprazole monotherapy: a case report
Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 2015 Laura Ponson,1,2 Frédéric Andersson,1 Wissam El-Hage1,2 1Université François-Rabelais de Tours, Inserm, Imagerie et Cerveau UMR U930, Tours, France, 2CHRU de Tours, Clinique Psychiatrique Universitaire, Tours, France ...
Ponson L, Andersson F, El-Hage W
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Delusional Infestation in a Patient with Renal Failure, Metabolic Syndrome, and Chronic Cerebrovascular Disease Treated with Aripiprazole: A Case Report [PDF]
Case Reports in Medicine, 2011 Delusional infestation is an aspecific psychiatric condition manifested either as a primary psychotic disorder or a secondary disorder induced by a wide range of very different medical conditions.
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