PARANOID DEMENTIA

Paranoid Personality Masking an Atypical Case of Frontotemporal Dementia

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a debilitating disease that is well described in the "Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fifth edition (DSM-5)", and typically presents with memory impairment, progressive decline in cortical functioning, and behavioral changes. Age of onset is generally in the late fifties, and usually the first presentation involves a change in behavior and...

Paranoid? Who Says I'm Paranoid?

Neuropsychological Assessment in Patients with Paranoid and Non-Paranoid Schizophrenia

Amaç: Şizofrenide bilişsel bozulmalar şizofreninin değişik belirti alt tipleriyle bağlantılıdır. Paranoid tip şizofrenide bilişsel işlevlerin daha iyi korunduğu öne sürülmüştür. Bu çalışmada, nöropsikolojik ölçümlerin, paranoid şizofreni hastalarını paranoid olmayanlardan ayrıştırıp ayrıştırmadığının değerlendirilmesi amaçlanmıştır. Yöntemler: Bu çalışmaya DSM-IV ölçütlerine göre 26 paranoid ti...

The Paranoid Patient

I he paranoid patient suffers deeply from pervasive feelings of being mistreated and misunderstood, hypervigilance, and an acute sensitivity to real or imagined slights. He is suspicious of other people's motives and may distrust those he loves most or to whom he is most attached. This patient harbors simmering anger and grudges toward those he feels may have deceived him or taken unfair advant...

Loneliness and the Paranoid Syndrome.

PARANOID reactions of various types are commonly found in women of late middle age or early senility. Baugh 1 described the prognosis of such cases as hopeless. He found that the patients had previously been indecisive, anxious, impressionable, touchy, scrupulous, introspective, self-satisfied and reticent before the first and final attack of insanity, and he believed that heredity was present ...