OBJECTIVE To examine the social cognitive vulnerabilities mediating delusion formation in children presenting with hallucinatory experiences. METHOD A sample of 259 12- and 13-year-old children, from a baseline case-control sample of children with and without auditory hallucinations (AH), were re-assessed after 5 years for presence of AH. Presence of delusions and theory of mind (ToM) were al...

The study of delusions has important implications for understanding the role played by affective processes on the road from experience to belief. It can also shed light on the forms of modularity these processes manifest. There are at least two different ways in which emotional processes may be relevant to the etiology of delusional beliefs. First, current models of delusion converge in proposi...

this is a report of (wo cases of monosymptomatic hypochondriacal psychosis who were convinced of having acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. they bitterly criticised the incompetence of their medical advisers, on of always showed virus-like particles of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome organisms beneath their lip mucosa or penile skin. vie first case was advised to continue psychofytic compoun...

the inheritance of olmsted syndrome that is a very rare congenital with transgredient palmoplantar keratoderma is distinguished by the presence of massive hyperkeratosis with fissured skin and periorificial chaps. it usually appears during the early life and mostly in male pateints. herein we report a case of olmsted syndrome which is associated with ichthyosis and somatic type of delusion duri...