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Historical and clinical considerations on Ekbom’s syndrome
International Review of Psychiatry, 2020Ekbom's syndrome represents a relatively uncommon neuropsychiatric condition characterized by the recurrent and bizarre fixed delusional belief to be infested by small organisms or even unanimated materials ('Morgellons disease'), without any objective evidence of infestation/parasitosis.
Laura Orsolini, Umberto Volpe
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Willis–Ekbom Disease or Restless Legs Syndrome?
Sleep Medicine, 2015Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) or Willis-Ekbom Disease (WED) is highly prevalent, but patients and healthcare providers alike know little about it. Furthermore, controversy persists as to the best way of diagnosing this nosological entity.To verify whether the term used to refer to this disease entity (Restless Legs Syndrome or Willis-Ekbom Disease ...
Karla Carlos
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Coexistence of the Ekbom Syndrome and Lilliputian Hallucination
Psychopathology, 1992A patient who showed Ekbom's syndrome, i.e. delusions of parasitosis, and also lilliputian hallucination is described. She was diagnosed as senile dementia based on the diagnostic criteria of DSM-III-R and cerebral imaging techniques. When she was 74 years, she felt a mowworm-like wriggle in her stomach and their travels all over her body. When she was
A, Kanazawa, T, Hata
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Co-existence of the Capgras and Ekbom Syndromes
British Journal of Psychiatry, 1984SummaryA case is described in which a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia was made using the criteria of Schneiderian first-rank symptoms. The patient showed the Capgras syndrome, with delusional misidentification of her son and other people in her environment, and also Ekbom's syndrome, with the delusion that she was infested with parasitic worms ...
J A, McLaughlin, A, Sims
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CNS Spectrums
IntroductionDelusional parasitosis, yclept Ekbom’s Syndrome, was originally described in 1938 and has an incidence of up to 4.2 per 100,000 people (Olivera, 2017; Orsolini, 2020). While the average duration of this delusion is three years, it can last decades (Al-Imam, 2019).
Camryn F. Hirsch, Patricia M. Bonilla
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IntroductionDelusional parasitosis, yclept Ekbom’s Syndrome, was originally described in 1938 and has an incidence of up to 4.2 per 100,000 people (Olivera, 2017; Orsolini, 2020). While the average duration of this delusion is three years, it can last decades (Al-Imam, 2019).
Camryn F. Hirsch, Patricia M. Bonilla
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Ekbom's syndrome: Lipomas, ataxia, and neuropathy with MERRF
Muscle & Nerve, 1994AbstractA 66‐year‐old woman with hereditary deafness and multiple symmetric lipomas presented with ataxia, slight myopathy, and neuropathy. Molecular genetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA revealed the adenine to guanine transition at position 8344 in the tRNA gene for lysine that has been associated with the myoclonic epilepsy and ragged red fiber ...
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[Ekbom syndrome or delusional parasitosis].
La Revue du praticien, 2007Ekbom syndrome or delusional parasitosis is mainly described in presenile women who are unmarried or living alone. The presenting dermatological symptom is persistent pruritus, and the patients take medical advice in several practitioners one after another.
Patrice, Bourée +2 more
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Ekbom Syndrome: A Delusional Condition of “Bugs in the Skin”
Current Psychiatry Reports, 2011Entomologists estimate that more than 100,000 Americans suffer from "invisible bug" infestations, a condition known clinically as Ekbom syndrome (ES), although the psychiatric literature dubs the condition "rare." This illustrates the reluctance of ES patients to seek mental health care, as they are convinced that their problem is bugs.
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