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Delusions of parasitosis

open access: yesIndian Journal of Dermatology, 2013
Patients with delusions of parasitosis (DOP) are more commonly recognized in dermatology practices today. However, dermatologists may feel uncomfortable treating these patients because of the psychiatric nature of their disorder. As a result of the fact that DOP patients strongly prefer to seek treatment from dermatologists rather than mental health ...
Jillian W Wong, John YM Koo
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The characteristics of cognitive and daily living functions of neurocognitive disorders with delusions in elderly Alzheimer’s disease [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ
Background Delusions in neurocognitive disorder due to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) worsen patients’ cognitive functions and activities of daily living (ADL), increasing caregiver burden and the risk of mortality.
Seo Yoo Kim, Soo Jin Lee
doaj   +2 more sources

Abnormal white matter microstructure and increased extracellular free-water in the cingulum bundle associated with delusions in chronic schizophrenia

open access: yesNeuroImage: Clinical, 2016
Background: There is growing evidence to suggest that delusions associated with schizophrenia arise from altered structural brain connectivity. The present study investigated whether structural changes in three major fasciculi that interconnect the ...
Lena K.L. Oestreich, PhD   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Monetary Incentives Increase Metacognitive Confidence in Source Memory Performance in Patients With Schizophrenia

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2020
BackgroundContemporary psychiatric research focuses its attention on the patient’s dysfunction of metacognition in relation to the basic cognitive processes of mental activity.
Remigiusz Szczepanowski   +5 more
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The effects of reducing worry in patients with persecutory delusions: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial [PDF]

open access: yes, 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   +15 more
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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.
Xiaojun Huang   +10 more
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Post Stroke Psychosis Following Lesions in Basal Ganglion [PDF]

open access: yesJournal 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Delusions across and beyond Diagnoses

open access: yes, 2023
This chapter considers the heterogeneity of delusions. There is some controversy about what features of delusions should be considered defining features, and this is in part due to the observation that different types of delusions manifest differently ...
Grassi Luigi   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

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