Skin-related delusional diseases with unspecific status and/or status without dermatological findings, among others ‘dermatological delusion’, are categorized as ‘delusional disorders’ (ICD-10: F 22.0; DSM-IV 297.1). A delusional disorder is diagnosed when (according to DSM-IV) the following criteria are fulfilled: A. Non-bizarre delusions (i.e. regarding situations not out of the realm of poss...

An 80-year-old female presented with symptoms of depression, worthlessness, hopelessness, loss of energy, insomnia, impatience, and forgetfulness associated with persecutory delusion that had begun about one year before her visit. She was diagnosed with major depression with psychotic signs and began treatment with risperidone (2 mg/night) and citalopram (20 mg/day). After 20 days, she returned...

OBJECTIVE Hypotheses to explain delusion formation include distorted perceptual processing of meaningful stimuli (e.g. faces), abnormal reasoning, or a combination of both. The study investigated these hypotheses using standardized neuropsychological tests. DESIGN A three-patient case-study, compared with a small group (n = 8) of age-matched normal control subjects. SETTING Hospital in- and...

Similar to substance use disorder, patients with Internet addiction disorder (IAD) show excessive use, tolerance and withdrawal symptoms. We report a case of a patient with withdrawal psychosis who showed persecutory delusion and disorganized behaviors in addition to common withdrawal symptoms such as agitation and irritability. A 25-year-old male developed a full-blown psychotic episode within...

Self-injurious behavior (SIB) or self-mutilating behavior (SMB) is rare but can occur in temporal lobe epilepsy. Such a behavior during seizures is not usually recalled by patient. Here is a case with self mutilating behavior in left temporal lobe epilepsy, presented because of its rare manifestation and diagnostic dilemma. A 19 year old unmarried Muslim student presented to emergency with SMB,...

Abstract Background Cotard is a syndrome characterized by ideas of damnation or rejection, anxious melancholia, and nihilistic delusions concerning one’s own body existence. Capgras in which the patient believes that identities close relatives friends are replaced others. delusion rarely reported one individual simultaneously, we will describe this poster. Case Report DD 38-year-old female with...

Anxiety and worry may be the key emotions involved in the formation of delusions of persecution, though other affective processes (depression, anger) may have some contribution. Prospective and retrospective clinical studies conducted have shown that in most cases, symptoms of anxiety, worry, depression and irritability preceding the positive symptoms with 2-4 weeks. AIMS: The study was based o...

BACKGROUND While chronic persecutory delusions are typically anchored into patients' everyday life situations, no investigation has ever looked at how situations associated with a feeling of persecution are recorded and later retrieved. METHOD a diary methodology combined with a recognition task involving ten patients with schizophrenia who presented chronic persecutory delusions and ten cont...