A cardinal feature of schizophrenia is the poor comprehension, or misinterpretation, of the emotional meaning of social interactions and events, which can sometimes take the form of a persecutory delusion. It has been shown that the comprehension of the emotional meaning of the social world involves a midline paralimbic cortical network. However, the function of this network during emotional ap...

Resenha do livro Arctic Madness: The Anthropology of a Delusion, de Pierre Déléage, publicada em 2020.

objectives: new cognitive theories of delusions have proposed that deficit or bias in inference stage (a stage of normal belief formation) is significant in delusion formation. the aim of this study was predicting the severity of delusions based on jumping-to-conclusion bias in patients with schizophrenia. methods: the sample consisted of 60 deluded patients with schizophrenia who were selected...

Sociodemographic, clinical, marital and sexual characteristics of 50 consecutive patients having delusions of infidelity were studied. Females outnumbered males after excluding alcoholics. Most of the patients were older than 30 yrs. and the onset occured more than 20 yrs. after marriage in about half the patients. Male patients were more often eldest siblings as compared to females. About one ...

To what extent do self-deception and delusion overlap? In this paper we argue that both self-deception and delusions can be understood in folk-psychological terms. "Motivated" delusions, just like self-deception, can be described as beliefs driven by personal interests. If self-deception can be understood folk-psychologically because of its motivational component, so can motivated delusions. No...