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Infestação delusional: relato de seis casos [PDF]
Delusional infestation, or delusional parasitosis, is a psychosis characterized by the strong impression of being infested by a living organism. Patients do not present with manifestations other than delusional disorders, but psychiatric conditions are ...
Imenes de Pinho, Leonardo +6 more
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Aripiprazole as a treatment option for delusional parasitosis: case series of 8 patients
Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2019 OBJECTIVE: Delusional parasitosis (DP), also known as Ekbom’s Syndrome, is a rare, generally monosymptomatic disorder that characterizes with the fixed belief of being infected by parasites without any evidence of medical or microbiological proof.
Meltem Çınar +3 more
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Delusional Parasitosis Impeding Delivery of Acute Care in a Cancer Patient
Diseases, 2018 Taking care of patients with delusional parasitosis can be challenging. This report illustrates the added management complexity and ethical dilemmas surrounding a patient who was newly diagnosed with an incurable lung cancer, while at the same time was ...
Ivayla I. Geneva
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Delusional infestation: It is the brain that itches and not the skin
Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, 2022 Patrick M. J. H. Kemperman +3 more
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A case series of shared delusional infestation: folie à deux revisited.
, 2019 Delusional infestation (DI) describes the unshakeable belief that one's skin is infected or infested with an external organism or inanimate material, in the absence of supportive medical evidence.
Martin, K +5 more
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Delusional Infestation and Chronic Pruritus: A Review
Acta Dermato Venereologica, 2016 The literature on chronic pruritus, paresthesia and delusional infestation indicates that a wide variety of conditions ranging from AIDS to vitamin deficiencies may cause these symptoms. In many, or perhaps most of these cases, activation of itch pathways seems to be the underlying cause of the skin sensations and perhaps even the visual hallucinations
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Cortical features of distinct developmental trajectories in patients with delusional infestation
, 2017 Background Although there is strong neuroimaging evidence that cortical alterations are a core feature of schizophrenia spectrum disorders, it still remains unclear to what extent such abnormalities occur in monothematic delusional disorders.
Erwin Kirchler +23 more
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Delusional parasitosis associated with pemoline [PDF]
, 2005 Soyka, Michael +3 more
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