Delusions Flashcards
Delusion where patient feels someone has been replaced by an imposter
Capgras Delusion
Patient holds a delusional belief that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise
Fregoli Delusion
Possbile lesion in right temporal lobe and fusiform gyrus
Delusion that one is a vampire
Vampirism
Delusion that one is a werewolf
Lycanthrophy
Antisocial personality, psychopathy, sociopathy with delusions
Psychopathic cannibalism
Symptoms of a delusional belief are transmitted from one individual to another
Folie a Deux/Shared delusion disorder/Zombeism
Folie imposee
Likely has the delusion
Folie simultanee
Incorporates delusion into his/her life
Conversion disorder
Suffer from neurological symptoms without definable organic cause
Can be shared like file a deux
Delusion that one is dead, do not exist, missing organs
Cotard’s delusion
Heroin-like drug that rots flash, bone makes appearance
Krokodil (desomorphine)
Not a delusion
Delusional parasitiosis –pt believes they are infested, can see and often see or feel parasites in or on them
Morgellons
Affected person believes that another person, usually a stranger, high-status or famous person, is in love with him or her
Erotomanic delusions
Often occurs during psychosis–especially in patients with schizophrenia, delusional disorder or bipolar mania
What is the assumption about the cause of delusional disorders
Too much mesolimbic DA activity
