Delusional disorder is a difficult-to-treat clinical condition with health needs that are often undertreated. Although individuals delusional may be high functioning in daily life, they suffer from serious complaints sex-specific. The main aim of this narrative review to address these sex-specific and find ways integrating their management into service programs. Age an important issue. most fir...

Delusional parasitosis (DP) is an uncommon and complex to treat form of delusional disorder, somatic type. The syndrome may occur in association with a number of psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia, organic mental disorder, or even in dementia with behavioral and psychological symptoms. Evidence of efficacy of treatment options is weak and there is little known about the specific use of ...

W hy is it important to consider com orbid panic disorder in schizophrenia? After all, schi,wphrenia wreaks such devastation on patients' lives that panic disorder would seem trivial in comparison. However, clinical experience and a growing literature suggest that comorbid panic disorder may be a major determinant of distress and dysfunction across many psychiatric disorders, including schizoph...

Forty eight patients of delusional parasitosis seen during a short span of five years were studied and underlying psychosocial factors were analysed. The findings revealed that elderly, married, and illiterate persons of rural area from lower socio-economic stratum were distinctly more affected. The incidence of the disease was greater during the months of May to August. Majority of them had ab...

Main results 48% of participants had an axis I disorder that began after traumatic brain injury. 62% had an axis I disorder during their lifetimes. Common new disorders following traumatic brain injury were major depression (27%), alcohol abuse or dependence (12%), panic disorder (8%), specific phobia (8%) and psychotic disorders (7%). 23% had at least one personality disorder. Conclusions Trau...

Dear Editor, We are very grateful to Professor Daroff, as well to our patients, for their goodwill in sharing with us their experience of aura. The letter by Professor Daroff (1) is a nice example of the fact that, in spite of contemporary technology, description of symptoms is the first and necessary step to answer the questions ‘why’ and ‘how’. We are in line with Professor Daroff when it com...

Jealousy is a complex emotion that most people have experienced at some time in life; pathological jealousy refers primarily to an irrational state. Othello syndrome is a psychotic disorder characterized by delusion of infidelity or jealousy; it often occurs in the context of medical, psychiatric or neurological disorders. At least 30% of cases in the literature show a neurological basis for th...

SEE MCKAY AND FURL DOI101093/AWW323 FOR A SCIENTIFIC COMMENTARY ON THIS ARTICLE: Focal brain injury can sometimes lead to bizarre symptoms, such as the delusion that a family member has been replaced by an imposter (Capgras syndrome). How a single brain lesion could cause such a complex disorder is unclear, leading many to speculate that concurrent delirium, psychiatric disease, dementia, or a ...