Delusions

Question 1

What is Capgras Delusion?

Answer 1

Delusion where patient feels someone has been replaced by an imposter

Question 2

What is Fregoli Delusion?

Answer 2

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

Question 3

What is Folie a Due/Shared Delusion Disorder? Examples?

Answer 3

Symptoms of a delusional belief are transmitted from one individual to another; Zombiesm, Conspiracy theorists

Question 4

What is Cotard’s Delusion?

Answer 4

the delusion that a person is dead, does not exist, or is missing organs

Question 5

What is depersonalization/derealization disorder?

Answer 5

Feeling disconnected from one’s physicality; feeling as though one is not completely occupying the body

Question 6

What do bath salts containe?

Answer 6

Cathinone, Methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), methylone, mephedrone

Question 7

What is Morgellons/Delusional Parasitosis?

Answer 7

Somatic/paranoid delusion, patient believes that they are infested, can feel parasites in/on them

Question 8

What is Erotomanic delusion?

Answer 8

Delusion in which the affected person believes that another person, usually a stranger, high-status or famous person is in love with him or her.

Question 9

What is the pathophysiology that leads to delusional disorders?
What is the Tx for delusional disorders?

Answer 9

Probably too much mesolimbic dopamine activity; Sometimes antipsychotics, possibly psychotherapy