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Delusional Parasitosis in Comorbidity With Shared Paranoid Disorder in a Marriage [PDF]

Case Reports in Psychiatry
Delusional parasitosis is a psychotic disorder where the patient has the delusion of being infested with some insect or parasite. In contrast, shared paranoid disorder or folie à deux is described when the same delusions affect two or more closely ...
Jonatan Escobar-Herrera, Gibran Raymundo León-Gallegos, Omar E. Valencia-Ledezma, Rafael García-Rascon, Nicolás Santiago-González   +4 more
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Differential diagnosis of late onset psychotic symptoms. A case report.

European Psychiatry, 2023
Introduction We present the case of a sixty-seven-year-old woman who is examined for the first time in the emergency room because of a nine-month clinical picture that involves psychotic symptoms.
J. Sánchez Rodríguez, S. Puyal González, M. Paz Otero, E. Lozano Bori, A. García Recio   +4 more
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Marfan syndrome and schizophrenia : a case report and literature review

European Psychiatry, 2022
Introduction Marfan syndrome is an autosomal dominant systemic disorder with connective tissue defects in multiple organ systems. Cardinal manifestations of this syndrome involve the cardiovascular, the skeletal and the ocular system.
S. Dhakouani, R. Kammoun, C. Aissaoui, M. Karoui, F. Ellouz   +4 more
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A case report of folie a deux: Mother and daughter

Journal of Mental Health and Human Behaviour, 2016
Shared paranoid disorders, a relatively rare psychiatric disorder in which paranoid delusions are transferred from one individual to one or more other susceptible person(s) in close association.
Nikita Dhaka, R K Solanki, G D Koolwal, Sanjay Gehlot, Surender Kumar   +4 more
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Incubus Assaulting the Whole Family: A Case Report of Folie a Famille from North India [PDF]

Indian Journal of Private Psychiatry
As per cultural beliefs, the incubus is a sex demon attempting to have intercourse with a female. Incubus syndrome has been described in patients either with schizophrenia or with delusional/psychotic disorders.
Robin Victor, Priyaranjan Avinash, Twinkle Sharma, Rohit Gondwal   +3 more
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Negative cognition, affect, metacognition and dimensions of paranoia in people at ultra-high risk of psychosis: a multi-level modelling analysis [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Paranoia is one of the commonest symptoms of psychosis but has rarely been studied in a population at risk of developing psychosis. Based on existing theoretical models, including the proposed distinction between ‘poor me’ and ‘bad me ...
Bentall, R.P., Birchwood, M., Fowler, D., French, P., Gumley, A.I., Jones, P.B., Lewis, S.W., Morrison, A.P., Shryane, N., Stewart, S.L.K., Taylor, H.E.   +10 more
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Folie à Deux and its interaction with early life stress: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2016
Background Folie à deux is a very rare psychiatric syndrome in which a psychotic symptom is transmitted from one individual to another. We present a case of folie à deux occurring during childhood, which is not an usual presentation of this syndrome.
Alessandra Vargas Alves Nunes, Sandra Odebrecht Vargas Nunes, Talita Strano, Gilberto Pascolat, Gustavo Manoel Schier Doria, Mauricio Nasser Ehlke   +5 more
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Shared-induced Paranoid Disorder (Folie á Deux) between Two Sisters. A Case Report

European Psychiatry, 2009
Introduction:Induced delusional disorder (also known as shared paranoid disorder or folie à deux) is an uncommon disturbance characterized by the presence of similar psychotic symptoms in two or more individuals. Most commonly a primary case can be distinguished from other one or more cases, in whom the symptoms are induced. the patients implied in the
R. Martínez de Velasco Soriano, E. Benítez Cerezo, M.F. Pando Velasco, C. Erausquin Sierra, I. Gobernado Ferrando, F. Suárez Martín, A. Soto Ruano, A. Chinchilla Moreno   +7 more
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Assessing mentalization in psychotherapy: first validation of the Mentalization Imbalances Scale

Research in Psychotherapy, 2018
The aim of this study was to provide data on the preliminary validation of a clinician-report multidimensional assessment measure of mentalization (Mentalization Imbalances Scale, MIS).
Giulia Gagliardini, Salvatore Gullo, Edgardo Caverzasi, Annalisa Boldrini, Stefano Blasi, Antonello Colli   +5 more
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Familial hemiplegic migraine with cerebellar ataxia and paroxysmal psychosis [PDF]

, 1999
Familial hemiplegic migraine is a rare autosomal dominant disorder associated with stereotypic neurologic au ra phenomena including hemiparesis, So far two chromosomal loci have been identified. Families linked to the chromosome 19 locus display missense
Benninger, C., Dichgans, Martin, Schwab, S., Spranger, Matthias, Spranger, S.   +4 more
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