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Neuroanatomical and neurocognitive correlates of delusion in Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment
BackgroundNeuropsychiatric symptoms and delusions are highly prevalent among people with dementia. However, multiple roots of neurobiological bases...
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“A ghost doesn’t need insulin,” Cotard’s delusion leading to diabetic ketoacidosis and a body-mass index of 15: a case presentation
BackgroundCotard’s Syndrome (CS) is a rare clinical entity where patients can report nihilistic, delusional beliefs that they are already dead....
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Alpha-blockers: the magic pill for endourology—The great delusion
PurposeThe present paper takes a different and more critical look at the role of alpha-blockers, sometimes nicknamed as “magical pills”, in...
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Capgras delusion in postpartum psychosis: a case report
BackgroundCapgras delusion is one of the delusional misidentification syndromes characterized by the belief by the patient that the close person is...
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Capgras Syndrome and Other Delusions of Misidentification: Integrating Neuropsychological Models of Delusion Formation with Psychoanalytic Object-Relations Theory
Purpose of ReviewWe show how psychoanalytic object-relations theory (PsyObjT) aligns with recent neuropsychological theories of delusions of...
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Oncolytic viruses against cancer, promising or delusion?
Cancer treatment is one of the most challenging topics in medical sciences. Different methods such as chemotherapy, tumor surgery, and immune...
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Correlation between white matter hyperintensity and delusional symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease
BackgroundPatients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) often exhibit neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS), particularly delusions. Previous studies have shown...
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Induced erotomania by online romance fraud - a novel form of de Clérambault’s syndrome
BackgroundAlthough the impact of internet usage on mental health is extensively documented, there is a notable scarcity of reports in the literature...
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“The more things change…”? Stability of delusional themes across 12 years of presentations to an early intervention service for psychosis
PurposeWhile the prevalence of delusional themes appears to be consistent across geographic contexts, little is known about the relative prevalence...
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Altered temporal lobe connectivity is associated with psychotic symptoms in drug–naïve adolescent patients with first–episode schizophrenia
Research on individuals with a younger onset age of schizophrenia is important for identifying neurobiological processes derived from the interaction...
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Patricide and overkill: a review of the literature and case report of a murder with Capgras delusion
Despite being an infrequent crime, parental homicide has been associated with schizophrenia spectrum disorders in adult perpetrators and a history of...
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Copy number deletion of PLA2G4A affects the susceptibility and clinical phenotypes of schizophrenia
Phospholipase A2(PLA2) superfamily is recognized as being involved in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia by affecting lipid homeostasis in cell...
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The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on hallucinations and delusions in youth at clinical high-risk for psychosis and outpatients with schizophrenia
Although the COVID-19 pandemic has had detrimental effects on mental health in the general population, the impact on those with...
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Diagnosis of Delusion and Hallucination from Schizophrenia Patient Using RADWT
In this paper, early detection of schizophrenia types such as hallucination and delusion propose through the high Q-factor of RADWT in EEG signal...
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Morgellons disease: a narrative review
Morgellons disease is characterized by the persistent delusion of skin infestation, ultimately inflicting wounds and impairing quality of life. There...
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Testing the combination of Feeling Safe and peer counselling against formulation-based cognitive behaviour therapy to promote psychological wellbeing in people with persecutory delusions: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (the Feeling Safe-NL Trial)
BackgroundPersecutory delusions are strong threat beliefs about others’ negative intentions. They can have a major impact on patients’ day-to-day...
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Delirium in the intensive care unit: identifying difficulties in applying the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU)
BackgroundDelirium is an underdiagnosed condition and this may be related, among other causes, to the incorrect use of assessment tools due to lack...
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The presence and co-incidence of geriatric syndromes in older patients with mild-moderate Lewy body dementia
IntroductionGeriatric symptoms are common in dementia cases, while few studies have focused on these symptoms in Lewy body dementia (LBD). The...
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Bridging the phenomenological gap between predictive basic-symptoms and attenuated positive symptoms: a cross-sectional network analysis
Attenuated positive symptoms (APS), transient psychotic-like symptoms (brief, limited intermittent psychotic symptoms, BLIPS), and predictive...
