Parental Alienation Syndrome as a Consequence of Paranoid Contagion or Shared Psychosis [PDF]
European Psychiatry, 2022 Introduction Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) was proposed by Richard A. Gardner in 1985. It is assumed to occur in some distressing marriage break-ups, when a parent “brainwashes” his children so they reject the other parent in an unjustified way ...
A. Ruiz-Tristan +3 more
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“Folie à deux,” or shared psychosis: A case report [PDF]
European PsychiatryIntroduction “Folie à deux,” or shared psychosis, is a fascinatingpsychiatric phenomenon characterized by the transmission of delusional beliefs and psychotic symptoms from one individual (the “inducer”) to another (the “recipient”) who share a close ...
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Genetic Pathways Point to the Biology Underlying the Association Between Cannabis Use Disorder and Psychosis [PDF]
Biological Psychiatry Global Open ScienceBackground: Cannabis use is associated with increased risk of psychotic disorders, but the underlying biological mechanisms remain unclear. We used genetic data to investigate the molecular pathways contributing to the association between cannabis use ...
Isabelle Austin-Zimmerman +15 more
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Genetic investigation of non-affective psychosis and depression as causal risk factors for dementia [PDF]
BMJ Mental HealthBackground Major psychiatric disorders are associated with increased risk of dementia but establishing whether psychiatric disorders causally increase dementia risk is challenging because dementia pathology can precede clinical diagnosis by decades ...
Valentina Escott-Price +3 more
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Development of a patient decision aid prototype on the decision to continue, reduce or discontinue antipsychotic medication following remission of first-episode psychosis [PDF]
BJPsych OpenBackground Shared decision-making is essential to patient-centred care, but remains underutilised in psychiatry, particularly when deciding whether to continue, reduce or stop antipsychotic medication after remission from first-episode psychosis (FEP).
Laurent Béchard +12 more
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Grounding psychosis research: why observable signs should anchor biological investigations [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryBiological psychiatry faces a significant epistemic challenge in identifying valid objects for mechanistic research. Both diagnostic constructs and individual symptoms are abstract symbols defined circularly within a closed hermeneutic system, creating a
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Shared psychotic disorder in children of parents with untreated schizophrenia: A case series
Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, 2021 Shared psychotic disorder (folie à deux) is a unique disorder with varied clinical presentation, posing difficulties in management. Parent–child dyads have been described to be commonly affected by this disorder but very few cases from India are ...
Hrishikesh B Nachane
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Folie à deux: contagious mental illness? Report of a clinical case
European Psychiatry, 2022 Introduction Folie à deux is a clinical condition that was first described in 19th century. It is a psychotic disorder in which two closely associated individuals share a similar delusional system.
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Evidence for a Shared Etiological Mechanism of Psychotic Symptoms and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms in Patients with Psychotic Disorders and Their Siblings. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The prevalence of obsessive-compulsive disorder in subjects with psychotic disorder is much higher than in the general population. The higher than chance co-occurrence has also been demonstrated at the level of subclinical expression of both phenotypes ...
Marije Swets +6 more
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Delusional parasitosis with folie à deux: A case series
Industrial Psychiatry Journal, 2015 Delusional parasitosis (DP) is characterized by single hypochondriacal delusion in which patient feels he/she is infested with insects. The authors present a case series of three cases of DP with shared psychotic disorder (folie ΰ deux) in which one ...
Neena Sanjiv Sawant +1 more
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