Folie á deux: time to rethink ‘shared psychosis’? [PDF]
AbstractFolie á deux is a condition in which the same psychiatric symptoms, often delusions, occur in two closely associated people. A recent systematic review questions the aetiology of the condition and suggests that it may not be as rare as previously believed. Mark Greener reports.
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False Allegation of Child Sexual Abuse: Five Cases Associated with Maternal Psychopathology
The most allegations of child sexual abuse are true but false allegations aren’t rare. Few false allegations cases (age range from 1,5 to 6 years) will be presented which related to maternal psychopathology.
Ayşegül Yolga Tahiroğlu +6 more
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Metacognitive function and fragmentation in schizophrenia: Relationship to cognition, self-experience and developing treatments [PDF]
Bleuler suggested that fragmentation of thought, emotion and volition were the unifying feature of the disorders he termed schizophrenia. In this paper we review research seeking to measure some of the aspects of fragmentation related to the experience ...
Bonfils, Kelsey +6 more
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The Psychosis MRI Shared Data Resource (Psy-ShareD) [PDF]
Abstract A key line of research in the field of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders has been to investigate neuroanatomical markers, relative to healthy control groups. In recent decades, a large number of structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) studies have been funded and undertaken, but their small sample sizes and ...
Allen, P +17 more
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Extreme overvalued beliefs: How violent extremist beliefs become “normalized” [PDF]
Extreme overvalued beliefs (EOB) are rigidly held, non-deusional beliefs that are the motive behind most acts of terrorism and mass shootings. EOBs are differentiated from delusions and obsessions. The concept of an overvalued idea was first described by
Rahman, Tahir
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Folie à Deux in the Setting of COVID-19 Quarantine
We relay the case of a middle-aged male and his mother, an elderly female, who presented with folie à deux in the context of shared delusions of persecution and somatization during the COVID-19 quarantine period.
Maxsaya Baez Nuñez +4 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]
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. +10 more
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Background: People with psychosis are frequently socially isolated. To address this, a new intervention has been developed and tested – the Phone Pal.
Mariana Pinto da Costa +2 more
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Familial hemiplegic migraine with cerebellar ataxia and paroxysmal psychosis [PDF]
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. +4 more
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CX3CL1 in Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease: Plasma Dynamics Across Age and Disease Stages
ABSTRACT Backgrounds Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by amyloid‐beta plaques, tau tangles, and neuroinflammation. C‐X3‐C motif chemokine ligand 1 (CX3CL1, also known as fractalkine), a neuroimmune chemokine implicated in AD pathogenesis, shows inconsistent alterations in plasma/serum across studies.
Ling Wang +6 more
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