in order to determine the rate of mental disorders in male prisoners, 120 men ages 18 to 28 incarcerated in ghasr prison of tehran for theft, assult, addiction, murder, unlawful sexual acts or embezzlement were selected randomly. 120 men in the same age range who were matched with the first group in terms of socio-economic characteristics were selected from normal population as a comparison gro...

BACKGROUND We used British national survey data to test specific hypotheses that mood instability (1) is associated with psychosis and individual psychotic phenomena, (2) predicts the later emergence of auditory hallucinations and paranoid ideation, and (3) mediates the link between child sexual abuse and psychosis. METHODS We analyzed data from the 2000 and 2007 UK national surveys of psychi...

BACKGROUND Schizophrenia spectrum disorders result in enormous individual suffering and financial burden on patients and on society. In Germany, there are about 1,000,000 individuals suffering from schizophrenia (SZ) or schizoaffective disorder (SAD), a combination of psychotic and affective symptoms. Given the heterogeneous nature of these syndromes, one may assume that there is a difference i...

BACKGROUND A growing body of evidence points to relationships between insomnia, negative affect, and paranoid thinking. However, studies are needed to examine (i) whether negative affect mediates the relation between insomnia and paranoid thinking, (ii) whether different types of insomnia exert different effects on paranoia, and (iii) to compare the impact of objective and self-reported sleepin...

A paradoxical increase in suicide threats, paranoid ideation, and demanding and assaultive behavior occurred among 15 borderline inpatients receiving amitriptyline in a double-blind study. This pattern differed significantly from that of 14 nonresponding patients receiving placebo.

1980 had been treated with lithium (Liskonum 225 mg in the morning and 450 mg at night), since when his mood had been stable. He attended regularly for follow-up. He described a 10-day history of paranoid symptoms, with ideas of influence (vibrations in his body) and auditory hallucinations (third-person commentary). He believed that his neighbours were trying to influence him and spying on him...

objective: inconsistent results have been reported regarding the symptom dimensions relevant to psychosis in symptoms check list revised (scl90-r), i.e., “psychoticism” and “paranoid ideation”. therefore, some studies have suggested different factor structures for questions of these two dimensions, and proposed two newly defined dimensions of “schizotypal signs” and “schizophrenia nuclear sympt...