Delusional disorder has important implications for forensic psychiatrists, as delusions are not infrequently related to criminal behavior. Thus, we hypothesized that delusional is over-represented in correctional populations. We conducted a retrospective chart review of the electronic medical records from 2000 2012 New Jersey Department Corrections inmates who remained incarcerated March 2012. ...

216 Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine | Volume 39 | Issue 2 | March-April 2017 Our patient had reported asymmetric, tender enlargement of the breasts (gynecomastia was more evident in left side than right). However, there was no sexual dysfunction. The side effect was reported with 10 mg/day olanzapine which improved when the dose of medication was reduced to 5 mg/day. There is evidence ...

INTRODUCTION Since the early description of paranoia, the nosology of delusional disorder has always been controversial. The old idea of unitary psychosis has now gained some renewed value from the dimensional continuum model of psychotic symptoms. AIMS 1. To study the psychopathological dimensions of the psychosis spectrum; 2. to explore the association between psychotic dimensions and categ...

OBJECTIVE The overriding objective is a critical examination of Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSBP) and its closely-related alternative, factitious disorder by proxy (FDBP). Beyond issues of diagnostic validity, assessment methods and potential detection strategies are explored. METHODS A painstaking analysis was conducted of the MSBP and FDBP literature as it relates diagnostic and assessmen...

We present four patients with first episode psychosis who were also negative to other clinical evaluations including thyroid functioning. Their psychotic symptoms were suspected to be induced by the arachnoid cyst and it was controlled by moderate dose antipsychotic administration. The diagnoses of these cases were atypical affective disorder, schizophrenia (paranoid type), delusional disorder ...

Although the prevalence of neuropsychiatric disorders among patients with cerebrovascular illness is relatively high, there are only few case reports describing post-stroke psychotic symptoms. In general, post-stroke psychoses have been reported to emerge few days after the vascular event and to vanish soon afterwards. In this report, we describe delayed-onset post-stroke delusional disorder, p...