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Theory & Psychology, 2009 Both psychology and psychiatry are dominated by individualistic accounts of paranoia (and, indeed, other forms of distress). As a corrective to these, this paper provides a social account of paranoia grounded in a minimal notion of embodied subjectivity constituted from the interpenetration of feelings, perception and discourse.
John Cromby, David J. Harper
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Worries about being judged versus being harmed: disentangling the association of social anxiety and paranoia with schizotypy. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Paranoia is a dimension of clinical and subclinical experiences in which others are believed to have harmful intentions. Mild paranoid concerns are relatively common in the general population, and more clinically severe paranoia shares features with ...
Leslie E Horton +3 more
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Do paranoid delusions exist on a continuum with subclinical paranoia? A multi-method taxometric study [PDF]
Schizophrenia Research, 2017 Background There is widespread interest in whether psychosis exists on a continuum with healthy functioning. Previous research has implied that paranoia, a common symptom of psychosis, exists on a continuum but this has not been investigated using ...
Guillermo Perez Algorta, Filippo Varese
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I fear you’re getting too close: neural correlates of personal space violation in paranoia [PDF]
SchizophreniaIncreased personal space (PS) is a clinically relevant marker for paranoia. Neuroimaging evidence suggested limbic and prefrontal circuit alterations related to threat processing and emotion regulation (i.e., amygdala, fronto-parietal cortex).
Mélodie Derome +8 more
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European Psychiatry, 2022 Introduction Paranoid ideas occur very often in humans (prevalence of 0.2%). According to several studies, the origin could be found in a genetic predisposition to a selective hyperdopaminergia related to the D2 receptor and dopamine neurotransmitter ...
M.J. Gordillo Montaño +2 more
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Research and Humanities in Medical Education, 2020 The poem is about the anxieties, fears and tensions of living alone during lockdown. As the world falls apart in the wake of a pandemic, you are exposed to your worst fears.
Abhishek Anicca
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A preliminary investigation of paranoia variability and its association with social functioning
Schizophrenia Research: Cognition, 2022 Background: Paranoid ideation is a core feature of psychosis and is associated with impaired social functioning. Severity of paranoia can fluctuate across time as symptoms wax and wane; however, no study has systematically investigated how this intra ...
Linlin Fan +4 more
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Inducing Paranoia is Linked to Increased Resting Amygdala Cerebral Blood Flow in Healthy Individuals
Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 2022 Among individuals with schizophrenia, paranoia has been linked to increased resting cerebral blood flow (CBF) in amygdala, suggesting that amygdala hyperactivity may be a mechanism for paranoid ideation.
Amy Pinkham +5 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Social anxiety and paranoia often co-occur and exacerbate each other. While loneliness and negative schemas contribute to the development of social anxiety and paranoia separately, their role in the development of the two symptoms co-occurring is rarely ...
Anson Kai Chun Chau +2 more
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Psychiatry Research Communications, 2023 Paranoia-like thoughts have been found to be associated with maladaptive emotion-focused and avoidant coping strategies. Avoidant coping aim to disconnect from a perceived stressor or to reduce tension indirectly, such as through increased substance use ...
Paulina Bagrowska, Łukasz Gawęda
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