Wilson's disease associated with delusional disorder
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Delusional Disorder
Delusional disorder is an illness characterized by the presence of nonbizarre delusions in the absence of other mood or psychotic symptoms. Diagnostic Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) (APA, 2000) defines delusions as false beliefs based on incorrect inference about external reality that persist despite the evidence to the contrary and these beliefs are not o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1323-1316,1440-1819
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2006.01592.x