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Understanding jumping to conclusions in patients with persecutory delusions: working memory and intolerance of uncertainty

open access: yesPsychological Medicine, 2014
Background. Persecutory delusions are a key psychotic experience. A reasoning style known as ‘jumping to conclusions’ (JTC) – limited information gathering before reaching certainty in decision making – has been identified as a contributory factor in the
Daniel Freeman
exaly   +3 more sources

Decreased Left Putamen and Thalamus Volume Correlates with Delusions in First-Episode Schizophrenia Patients

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2017
BackgroundDelusional thinking is one of the hallmark symptoms of schizophrenia. However, the underlying neural substrate for delusions in schizophrenia remains unknown.
Weidan Pu   +2 more
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Derationalizing Delusions [PDF]

open access: yesClinical Psychological Science, 2020
Because of the traditional conceptualization of delusion as “irrational belief,” cognitive models of delusions largely focus on impairments to domain-general reasoning. Nevertheless, current rationality-impairment models do not account for the fact that (a) equivalently irrational beliefs can be induced through adaptive social cognitive processes ...
Vaughan Bell   +2 more
openaire   +5 more sources

“DELUSIONS OF THE MEMORY” [PDF]

open access: greenThe Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1883
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Meynert
openaire   +5 more sources

DELUSIONS OF HYSTERICS [PDF]

open access: greenThe Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1883
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Targeting Recovery in Persistent Persecutory Delusions: A Proof of Principle Study of a New Translational Psychological Treatment (the Feeling Safe Programme)

open access: yesBehavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 2016
Background: Many patients do not respond adequately to current pharmacological or psychological treatments for psychosis. Persistent persecutory delusions are common in clinical services, and cause considerable patient distress and impairment.
Daniel Freeman   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Understanding delusions

open access: yesIndustrial Psychiatry Journal, 2009
Delusion has always been a central topic for psychiatric research with regard to etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, and forensic relevance. The various theories and explanations for delusion formation are reviewed. The etiology, classification
Chandra Kiran, Suprakash Chaudhury
doaj   +3 more sources

Do delusions have and give meaning?

open access: yesPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2021
Delusions are often portrayed as paradigmatic instances of incomprehensibility and meaninglessness. Here we investigate the relationship between delusions and meaning from a philosophical perspective, integrating arguments and evidence from cognitive ...
R. Ritunnano, L. Bortolotti
semanticscholar   +1 more source

‘An experience of meaning’: A 20-year prospective analysis of delusional realities in schizophrenia and affective psychoses

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
Delusions are transdiagnostic and heterogeneous phenomena with varying degrees of intensity, stability, and dimensional attributes where the boundaries between everyday beliefs and delusional beliefs can be experienced as clearly demarcated, fuzzy, or ...
Cherise Rosen   +6 more
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