Delusions

Question 1

delusional disorder

Answer 1

patients have a crystallized, often single, delusion. they do not have hallucinations or thought disorders like schizophrenia. they often can have normal lives. delusions cannot be substance induced, medical condition driven, or be part of any other mental disorder

Question 2

Capgras delusion

Answer 2

patient feels someone has been replaced by an imposter

Question 3

Fregoli delusion

Answer 3

pation holds a belief that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise. lesions in the temporal lobe and fusiform gyrus may cause this.

Question 4

psychopathic cannibalism

Answer 4

antisocial personality, psychopathy, sociopathy, with delusions

Question 5

folie a deux / shared delusion disorder

Answer 5

syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief are transmitted from one individual to another. the folie imposee gives the delusion to the folie simultanee

Question 6

cotard’s delusion

Answer 6

delusion that one is dead, do not exist, or has missing organs. seen more in depression/schizophrenia

Question 7

morgellons / delusional parasitosis

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Erotomanic delusions

Answer 8

affected person believes that another person, usually a stranger or famous person, is in love with them. often happens during psychosis in ppl with schizophrenia, delusional disorder, or bipolar mania.

Question 9

treatment

Answer 9

assumption there is too much mesolimbic dopamine activity. antipsychotics are sometimes effective. psychotherapy may help patients cope, lower symptoms. be nice and understanding to these people