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“Those crazy knight-errants”: ideals and delusions in Arthur Conan Doyle’s portrait of a fourteenth century knight

Journal of English Studies, 2013
In The White Company (1891) and Sir Nigel (1906), Arthur Conan Doyle reconstructed the fourteenth century and explored the culture and visions of chivalry.
Antonio José Miralles Pérez
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Post Stroke Psychosis Following Lesions in Basal Ganglion [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2017
Stroke is the second most common cause of death and fourth leading cause of disability worldwide. Post stroke behavioural manifestations are often not recognized, undiagnosed and hence remain untreated.
SHRUTI SRIVASTAVA, MUKUL P AGARWAL, ANKUR GAUTAM   +2 more
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Delusion and Delirium in Neurodegenerative Disorders: An Overlooked Relationship?

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
Delusions are part of the neuropsychiatric symptoms that patients suffering from neurodegenerative conditions frequently develop at some point of the disease course and are associated with an increased risk of cognitive and functional decline.
Daniele Urso, Daniele Urso, Valentina Gnoni, Valentina Gnoni, Marco Filardi, Marco Filardi, Giancarlo Logroscino, Giancarlo Logroscino   +7 more
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The effects of reducing worry in patients with persecutory delusions: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND: Our approach to advancing the treatment of psychosis is to focus on key single symptoms and develop interventions that target the mechanisms that maintain them.
Dunn, Graham, Kingdon David, Helen Startup, David Kingdon, Freeman, D, Daniel Freeman, Startup Helen, Kingdon, D, Dunn, G, Freeman Daniel, Dunn Graham, Kingdon, David, Freeman, Daniel, Startup, Helen, Startup, H, Graham Dunn   +15 more
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Thinking Preferences and Conspiracy Belief: Intuitive Thinking and the Jumping to Conclusions-Bias as a Basis for the Belief in Conspiracy Theories

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020
BackgroundThe belief in conspiracy theories and paranoid ideation are often treated as almost synonymous. However, there is to date no research concerning shared underlying cognitive underpinnings of belief in conspiracy theories and paranoid ideation ...
Nico Pytlik, Daniel Soll, Stephanie Mehl, Stephanie Mehl   +3 more
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Prodromal stage and clinical features of late-onset schizophrenia and schizophrenia-like psychosis

European Psychiatry, 2023
Introduction The early diagnostic of schizophrenia and other psychosis is very important for the early therapeutic interventions. Objectives The aim is to describe the connection between the prodromal stage of psychosis and clinical features. Methods 74
V. Pochueva, V. Sheshenin
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Developing hypnotic analogues of clinical delusions : Mirrored-self misidentification [PDF]

, 2008
Introduction. Despite current research interest in delusional beliefs, there are no viable models for studying delusions in the laboratory. However, hypnosis offers a technique for creating transient delusions that are resistant to challenge.
Coltheart, Max, Turner, Martha, O'Connor, Akira Robert, Barnier, Amanda, Langdon, Robyn, Breen, Nora, Cox, Rochelle   +6 more
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The Multivariable Multiaxial Suggestibility Inventory-2 (MMSI-2): A Psychometric Alternative to Measure and Explain Supernatural Experiences

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
This paper presents the English adaptation of the Multivariable Multiaxial Suggestibility Inventory-2 (MMSI-2), a questionnaire developed specifically for psychological assessment and prediction of anomalous phenomena.
Álex Escolà-Gascón, Neil Dagnall, Josep Gallifa   +2 more
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Delusions Are Beliefs (Just Not the Kind You Thought)

Análisis Filosófico
The idea that delusions are beliefs is supported by the observation that delusions, similarly to beliefs, are used in reasoning. However, delusions also exhibit other features that are difficult to explain under this doxastic view—they ...
Rajeev R. Dutta, B.S.
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No common factor for illusory percepts, but a link between pareidolia and delusion tendency: A test of predictive coding theory

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
Predictive coding theory is an influential view of perception and cognition. It proposes that subjective experience of the sensory information results from a comparison between the sensory input and the top-down prediction about this input, the latter ...
Magdalena Lhotka, Anja Ischebeck, Anja Ischebeck, Birgit Helmlinger, Birgit Helmlinger, Natalia Zaretskaya, Natalia Zaretskaya   +6 more
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