Behav. Sci. Delusions

Question 1

delusional disorder

Answer 1

patients have a crystallized, often single delusions

Question 2

how does delusional disorder differ from schizophrenia

Answer 2

delusional disorders do NOT have hallucinations or thought disorder like schizo and they can often have normal lives

Question 3

capgras delusion

Answer 3

patient feels someone has been replaced by an imposter

Question 4

fregoli delusion

Answer 4

patient holds a delusional belief that different people are infact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise

Question 5

what is thought that fregoli delusion is a result of?

Answer 5

lesion in the right temporal lobe and fusiform gyrus

Question 6

vampirism

Answer 6

delusion that one is a vampire

Question 7

lycanthropy

Answer 7

delusion that one is a werewolf

Question 8

psychopathic cannibalism

Answer 8

antisocial personality, psychopathy, sociopathy, with delusions

Question 9

folie a deux

Answer 9

syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief are transmitted from one individual to another (think cult - first person psychotic, other people aren’t but follow)

Question 10

folie imposee

Answer 10

likely has the delusion of another

Question 11

folie simultanee

Answer 11

incorporates delusion into his/her life

Question 12

conversion disorder

Answer 12

can be shared - 5/6 girls in rochester sharing a neuro disorder

Question 13

cotard’s delusion

Answer 13

the delusion that one is dead, do not exist, missing organs

ME!

Question 14

krokodil

Answer 14

NOT a delusion but a heroin-like drug that rots flesh and makes bone appear
came from Russia/Eastern Europe

Question 15

morgellons/delusional parasitosis

Answer 15

somatic delusion/paranoid delusion - patient believes that are infested, can see and often see or feel parasites in or on them

Question 16

erotomanic delusions

Answer 16

believes that another person, often a stranger/famous person, is in love iwth him or her
stalking in these circumstance is delusional - not stalking for secondary gain

Question 17

treatment for delusional disorders

Answer 17

assumption is that they have too much mesolimbic dopamine activity similar to schizophrenia - antipsychotics are sometimes effect
psychotherapy to help patients cope, lower anxiety, agitation or responding to these symptoms if antipsychotics fail