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A syndrome which was first described by G.G. De Clerambault in 1885 is reviewed and a case is presented. Popularly called erotomania, the syndrome is characterized by the delusional idea, usually in a young woman, that a man whom she considers to be ...

Cotard delusion is a rare mental illness that causes people to believe they're dead. Learn more about the complications this can cause and treatment options.

Cotard delusion is a rare mental illness that causes people to believe they're dead. Learn more about the complications this can cause and treatment options.

On the "organicity" of paranoid syndromes

The present authors report the case of a 42-year-old female with Down's syndrome who developed a misidentification syndrome, erotomanic delusions towards her Bible instructor, and increasing grandiosity following the death of her father. The authors believe that her symptoms may be formulated in dev …

Contrasted five aspects of psychiatric inpatient care in two psychometrically distinct inpatient samples. The experimental (N = 35) and control groups (N = 35) differed in that the former Ss all scored higher WAIS VIQs than their respective PIQs by at least 15 units. The controls had WAIS VIQs that …

A case of a rare form of delusional misidentification, the Frégoli syndrome, is described. Although usually occurring in the setting of primary or secondary schizophrenic psychoses, delusional misidentification has been reported in affective, neurological, and toxic-metabolic disorders. In this inst …

We have no introspective knowledge of the effects of preconscious processing on our perceptions. We are, therefore, not aware that our expectancies may have prejudiced our perceptions. Expectancies tend to foster perceptions with which they are consonant. Therefore false expectations, driven by fals …

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Fregoli syndrome is the delusional belief that one or more familiar persons, usually persecutors following the patient, repeatedly change their appearance. This...

Fregoli syndrome is the delusional belief that one or more familiar persons, usually persecutors following the patient, repeatedly change their appearance. This syndrome has often been discussed as a variant of the Capgras syndrome in the literature, but these two syndromes have different phenomenol …

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In this session, Dr Jennifer Sweeton investigates the neuroscience of explicit vs implicit memories. She examines how explicit and implicit memories are housed in different regions of the brain and are retrieved through different processes. Dr Sweeton discusses the difference between explicit and implicit memory systems, and why this is relevant when utilising memory reconsolidation

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