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Encephale ; 50(1): 99-107, 2024 Feb.
Artículo en Francés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37748987

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Persecutory ideas are a major clinical problem and are associated with impaired functioning, reduced compliance with medication and increased risk of hospitalization. Persecutory ideation is defined as the false conviction that others are threatening or conspiring against one. Although persecutory delusions are mainly described and experienced in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, they also occur in other neurological and psychiatric diagnoses including Alzheimer disease, epilepsy, depression, mania, dementia and post-traumatic stress disorder. Moreover, epidemiological data from general and clinical populations indicated that paranoid beliefs occur on a hierarchy of severity and are present to a lesser degree in the general population, with paranoid delusions representing the severe end of a continuum. In this review we focus on the important advances following a decade of research from psychological sciences, and more particularly the work of Daniel Freeman and Philippa Garety in England. Their work has demonstrated that a range of causal factors are involved in the development and maintenance of delusions beyond the traditional cognitive and behavioural models. Indeed, there is now well-validated evidence that sleep disturbances, worry proneness, reasoning biases, such as failure to consider alternative explanations or belief confirmation bias, abnormal experiences such as hallucinations, negative self-beliefs, and safety behaviours, are central factors that contribute to the paranoid phenomenon. In this review, we describe each of these causal factors in detail as well as the clinical interventions developed by Freeman and his collaborators, including the integrative and modular "Feeling Safe" intervention. Broadly speaking, the aim of this psychological intervention is for patients to relearn safety by exposing them to situations they consider as potentially dangerous after reduction of the influence of the maintenance factors described above. A recent publication showed that the Feeling Safe program led to recovery in persecutory delusions for 50% of patients having poor response to antipsychotic medication, making the intervention as the most effective psychological treatment for persecutory delusions. Finally, we will critically discuss the efficacy data from the numerous clinical studies validating its effectiveness. Prospects for the implementation of the Feeling Safe program in France also is discussed.


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Trastornos Paranoides , Esquizofrenia , Humanos , Trastornos Paranoides/terapia , Trastornos Paranoides/diagnóstico , Trastornos Paranoides/psicología , Deluciones/etiología , Deluciones/terapia , Deluciones/psicología , Esquizofrenia/terapia , Ansiedad/psicología , Emociones
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Soins Gerontol ; 29(165): 39-41, 2024.
Artículo en Francés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38331523

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Psychotic disorders, such as delusions and hallucinations, cause stress for individuals, their caregivers and healthcare professionals. Attitudes, perceived as behavioral tendencies, in the presence of these symptoms, can either alleviate or exacerbate them. How should we position ourselves in the presence of these disorders? What are the most effective attitudes for calming day-to-day situations?


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Trastornos Psicóticos , Humanos , Cuidadores , Deluciones/etiología , Deluciones/psicología
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Eur J Neurol ; 30(1): 125-133, 2023 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36086918

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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Incongruent beliefs about self-localization in space markedly disturb patients' behavior. Spatial delusions, or reduplicative paramnesias, are characterized by a firm conviction of place reduplication, transformation, or mislocation. Evidence suggests they are frequent after right hemisphere lesions, but comprehensive information about their clinical features is lacking. METHODS: We prospectively screened 504 acute right-hemisphere stroke patients for the presence of spatial delusions. Their behavioral and clinical features were systematically assessed. Then, we analyzed the correlation of their duration with the magnitude of structural disruption of belief-associated functional networks. Finally, we described the syndrome subtypes and evaluated whether the clinical categorization would be predicted by the structural disruption of familiarity-associated functional networks using an unsupervised k-means clustering algorithm. RESULTS: Sixty patients with spatial delusions were identified and fully characterized. Most (93%) localized the misidentified places closer to home than the hospital. The median time duration was 3 days (interquartile range = 1-7 days), and it was moderately correlated with the magnitude of structural-functional decoupling of belief-associated functional networks (r = 0.39, p = 0.02; beta coefficient regressing for lesion volume = 3.18, p = 0.04). Each clinical subtype had characteristic response patterns, which were reported, and representative examples were provided. Clustering based on structural disruption of familiarity- and unfamiliarity-associated functional networks poorly matched the clinical categorization (lesion: Rand index = 0.47; structural disconnection: Rand index = 0.51). CONCLUSIONS: The systematic characterization of the peculiar clinical features of stroke-associated spatial delusions may improve the syndrome diagnosis and clinical approaches. The novel evidence about their neural correlates fosters the clarification of the pathophysiology of delusional misidentifications.


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Deluciones , Accidente Cerebrovascular , Humanos , Deluciones/etiología , Accidente Cerebrovascular/complicaciones , Accidente Cerebrovascular/diagnóstico por imagen , Trastornos de la Memoria/complicaciones , Reconocimiento en Psicología
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Neurocase ; 29(2): 37-45, 2023 04.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38678305

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Erotomania (de Clérambault's syndrome) refers to the delusional belief that another person, usually socially unreachable, is in love with the holder of the delusion. The occurrence of erotomania in Frontotemporal Dementia has rarely been reported. We present the unique case of a 59-year-old woman with a strong family history of early-onset dementia in whom erotomania was the initial manifestation that led to a diagnosis of definite Behavioral Variant of Frontotemporal Dementia with a pathogenic missense mutation in the MAPT gene. Based on this case, we propose a hypothetical model for developing erotomania in patients with FTD.


Asunto(s)
Deluciones , Demencia Frontotemporal , Proteínas tau , Humanos , Demencia Frontotemporal/genética , Demencia Frontotemporal/psicología , Persona de Mediana Edad , Femenino , Deluciones/etiología , Proteínas tau/genética , Amor , Mutación Missense
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Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci ; 273(6): 1329-1338, 2023 Sep.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36680609

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Although the COVID-19 pandemic has had detrimental effects on mental health in the general population, the impact on those with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders has received relatively little attention. Assessing pandemic-related changes in positive symptoms is particularly critical to inform treatment protocols and determine whether fluctuations in hallucinations and delusions are related to telehealth utilization and treatment adherence. In the current longitudinal study, we evaluated changes in the frequency of hallucinations and delusions and distress resulting from them across three-time points. Participants included: (1) outpatients with chronic schizophrenia (SZ: n = 32) and healthy controls (CN: n = 31); (2) individuals at clinically high risk for psychosis (CHR: n = 25) and CN (n = 30). A series of questionnaires were administered to assess hallucination and delusion severity, medication adherence, telehealth utilization, and protective factors during the pandemic. While there were no significant increases in the frequency of hallucinations and delusions in SZ and CHR, distress increased from pre-pandemic to early pandemic in both groups and then decreased at the third time point. Additionally, changes in positive symptom severity in SZ were related to psychiatric medication adherence. Findings suggest that positive symptoms are a critical treatment target during the pandemic and that ongoing medication services will be beneficial.


Asunto(s)
COVID-19 , Trastornos Psicóticos , Esquizofrenia , Humanos , Adolescente , Esquizofrenia/complicaciones , Esquizofrenia/epidemiología , Esquizofrenia/diagnóstico , Deluciones/epidemiología , Deluciones/etiología , Deluciones/diagnóstico , Pandemias , Estudios Longitudinales , Pacientes Ambulatorios , COVID-19/epidemiología , Trastornos Psicóticos/tratamiento farmacológico , Trastornos Psicóticos/epidemiología , Trastornos Psicóticos/psicología , Alucinaciones/epidemiología , Alucinaciones/etiología , Alucinaciones/diagnóstico
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BMC Psychiatry ; 23(1): 551, 2023 07 31.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37525179

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BACKGROUND: Cotard's Syndrome (CS) is a rare clinical entity where patients can report nihilistic, delusional beliefs that they are already dead. Curiously, while weight loss, dehydration, and metabolic derangements have been described as discussed above, a review of the literature revealed neither a single case of a severely underweight patient nor a serious metabolic complication such as Diabetic Ketoacidosis. Further, a search on PubMed revealed no articles discussing the co-occurrence of Cotard's Delusion and eating disorders or comorbid metabolic illnesses such as diabetes mellitus. In order to better examine the association between Cotard's Delusion and comorbid eating disorders and metabolic illness, we will present and discuss a case where Cotard's delusion led to a severe metabolic outcome of DKA and a BMI of 15. CASE PRESENTATION: Mr. B is a 19 year old transgender man admitted to the hospital due to diabetic ketoacidosis secondary to Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus. Mr. B had a history of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The primary pediatric team discovered that Mr. B had not been using his insulin appropriately and was severely underweight, and they believed this could be due to his underlying mental illness. The psychiatric consultation/liaison service found that Mr. B was suffering from Cotard's delusion leading him to be noncompliant with his insulin due to a belief that he was already dead. Cotard's delusion had in this case led to a severe metabolic outcome of DKA and a BMI of 15. CONCLUSIONS: This case provides clinical insight into the interactions of eating disorders and Cotard's delusion as well as the potential medical complications when Cotard's delusion is co-morbid with medical conditions such as Diabetes Mellitus. We recommend that clinicians routinely screen patients for Cotard's delusion and assess whether the presence of which could exacerbate any underlying medical illness. This includes clinicians taking special care in assessing patient's caloric and fluid intake as well as their adherence to medications both psychiatric and medical. Further research could be conducted to explore the potential overlap of Cotard's delusion and eating disorder phenomenology.


Asunto(s)
Trastorno Depresivo Mayor , Diabetes Mellitus , Cetoacidosis Diabética , Humanos , Masculino , Niño , Adulto Joven , Adulto , Deluciones/etiología , Insulina , Cetoacidosis Diabética/complicaciones , Índice de Masa Corporal , Delgadez , Síndrome
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BMC Psychiatry ; 23(1): 29, 2023 01 12.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36635691

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BACKGROUND: Positive psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia are generally characterized by hallucinations and delusions. We propose to assess the relationship between total composite trauma and positive psychotic symptoms, along with the mediation effect of cognition, fear of COVID-19, insomnia, anxiety, distress, and depression of Lebanese patients with schizophrenia. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was carried out, between June and July 2021, by deriving data from 155 long-stay in-patients diagnosed with schizophrenia. RESULTS: Depression, anxiety, and distress but not cognitive impairment, insomnia, and fear of COVID-19) mediated the association between lifetime traumatic experiences and positive psychotic symptoms. Higher traumatic experiences were associated with greater depression, anxiety, and distress, indicating a significant positive total effect on positive psychotic scores. Moreover, higher depression, anxiety, and distress were significantly associated with higher positive psychotic symptoms. CONCLUSION: Our results contribute to the existing knowledge by suggesting other possible intervention paths through mediating factors. Interventions that improve anxiety, depression, and distress severity may be effective in reducing positive psychotic symptoms among patients with schizophrenia having experienced lifetime trauma.


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COVID-19 , Trastornos Psicóticos , Esquizofrenia , Trastornos del Inicio y del Mantenimiento del Sueño , Humanos , Esquizofrenia/complicaciones , Esquizofrenia/diagnóstico , Estudios Transversales , Deluciones/etiología , COVID-19/complicaciones , Trastornos Psicóticos/complicaciones , Trastornos Psicóticos/psicología , Ansiedad/psicología , Alucinaciones/complicaciones , Alucinaciones/diagnóstico
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J Nerv Ment Dis ; 211(4): 337-341, 2023 04 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36975548

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ABSTRACT: Cotard syndrome is a rare condition characterized by delusions ranging from a belief that one has lost organs to insisting that one has lost one's soul or is dead. This is the report a case of a 45-year-old man who was comatose after an attempted suicide. This was initially diagnosed as brain death and use of his organs for transplantation was actively considered. However, he awakened days later with new-onset Cotard syndrome. It remains difficult to know the link, unconscious or conscious, between this patient's delusions and the fleeting intention of doctors who intended to transplant his organs. This is the first description of a coincidence between delusional denial of an organ and the potential medico-surgical act of having an organ removed. This case is an opportunity to revisit the philosophical concepts of negation and nihilism. A multidisciplinary reflection is needed to give meaning to other clinical presentations.


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Deluciones , Trasplante de Órganos , Masculino , Humanos , Persona de Mediana Edad , Deluciones/etiología , Deluciones/diagnóstico , Intento de Suicidio
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J Nerv Ment Dis ; 211(12): 977-978, 2023 12 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38015189

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ABSTRACT: Herein, we present a case of a female patient with a persistent sore throat, which preceded a hypochondriacal delusion of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Both the sore throat and hypochondriacal delusion persisted together, despite the repeatedly negative results of reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for SARS-CoV-2 and a moderate improvement in her depression. Four possibilities for the patient's sore throat were discussed: pain symptoms of somatic symptom disorder, pain symptoms of depression, delusion of pain in her throat, and somatic hallucination as a sore throat. Consequently, somatic hallucinations were considered the most likely. In any case, the present findings suggest that sore throat can precede hypochondriacal delusion of SARS-CoV-2 infection in some noninfected patients. When patients continue to complain of a sore throat despite the negative results of SARS-CoV-2 by the RT-PCR test, we should consider that it might be a somatic hallucination and soon hypochondriacal delusions may occur, leading to the manifestation of other symptoms of psychiatric disorders, such as depression, which may be refractory and/or suicidal.


Asunto(s)
COVID-19 , Trastorno Depresivo Resistente al Tratamiento , Faringitis , Femenino , Humanos , Deluciones/etiología , COVID-19/complicaciones , SARS-CoV-2 , Alucinaciones , Dolor
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Pediatr Dermatol ; 40(3): 544-546, 2023.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36519423

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Delusions of parasitosis by proxy is an uncommon entity wherein an individual projects a delusional belief onto another person who lacks capacity to hold the same belief. We report a case of delusions of parasitosis by proxy in a mother who believed that she was infested with scabies and projected her fixed, delusional belief of scabies infestation onto her children. She subjected her children to numerous home remedies and medical treatments as well as removing them from school in an effort to cure them of the supposed infestation. Child maltreatment can be a concern in such cases with a low threshold for involving child protective services if harm to the children is suspected.


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Maltrato a los Niños , Escabiosis , Femenino , Humanos , Niño , Madres , Deluciones/etiología , Escabiosis/diagnóstico , Escabiosis/tratamiento farmacológico
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Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol ; 73(9-10): 413-429, 2023 Oct.
Artículo en Alemán | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37793422

RESUMEN

Delusional beliefs can have serious impact on peoples' everyday life. They are often associated with strong negative emotions and can complicate relationships with other people- In severe cases, patients may even organize their everyday lives entirely around their delusional beliefs. In recent years, psychological approaches have come to be seen as an essential parts of an integrative treatment concept. This article gives an overview of the cognitive-behavioural approach to delusions.


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Terapia Cognitivo-Conductual , Deluciones , Humanos , Deluciones/etiología , Cognición
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Ann Neurol ; 89(6): 1181-1194, 2021 06.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33811370

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OBJECTIVE: Knowing explicitly where we are is an interpretation of our spatial representations. Reduplicative paramnesia is a disrupting syndrome in which patients present a firm belief of spatial mislocation. Here, we studied the largest sample of patients with delusional misidentifications of space (ie, reduplicative paramnesia) after stroke to shed light on their neurobiology. METHODS: In a prospective, cumulative, case-control study, we screened 400 patients with acute right-hemispheric stroke. We included 64 cases and 233 controls. First, lesions were delimited and normalized. Then, we computed structural and functional disconnection maps using methods of lesion-track and network-mapping. The maps were compared, controlling for confounders. Second, we built a multivariate logistic model, including clinical, behavioral, and neuroimaging data. Finally, we performed a nested cross-validation of the model with a support-vector machine analysis. RESULTS: The most frequent misidentification subtype was confabulatory mislocation (56%), followed by place reduplication (19%), and chimeric assimilation (13%). Our results indicate that structural disconnection is the strongest predictor of the syndrome and included 2 distinct streams, connecting right fronto-thalamic and right occipitotemporal structures. In the multivariate model, the independent predictors of reduplicative paramnesia were the structural disconnection map, lesion sparing of right dorsal fronto-parietal regions, age, and anosognosia. Good discrimination accuracy was demonstrated (area under the curve = 0.80 [0.75-0.85]). INTERPRETATION: Our results localize the anatomic circuits that may have a role in the abnormal spatial-emotional binding and in the defective updating of spatial representations underlying reduplicative paramnesia. This novel data may contribute to better understand the pathophysiology of delusional syndromes after stroke. ANN NEUROL 2021;89:1181-1194.


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Mapeo Encefálico/métodos , Deluciones/diagnóstico por imagen , Deluciones/etiología , Accidente Cerebrovascular/complicaciones , Accidente Cerebrovascular/diagnóstico por imagen , Anciano , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Estudios de Casos y Controles , Deluciones/patología , Femenino , Humanos , Interpretación de Imagen Asistida por Computador/métodos , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética , Masculino , Estudios Prospectivos , Accidente Cerebrovascular/patología , Máquina de Vectores de Soporte , Tomografía Computarizada por Rayos X/métodos
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Cerebellum ; 21(6): 1135-1138, 2022 Dec.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34705199

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Depressive state is a common complication of spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3). To the best of our knowledge, cases of SCA3 presenting with cenesthopathy have not been described. Here, we present a case of a severe depressive state with cenesthopathy and delusion in a young Japanese man with SCA3. A 43-year-old Japanese man with SCA3 developed a severe depressive state with associated cenesthopathy and delusion. He was treated with escitalopram (10 mg/day) and olanzapine (2.5 mg/day). Computed tomography showed atrophy of the cerebellum, bilateral superior cerebellar peduncle, and tegmentum of the pons. Single-photon emission computed tomography demonstrated reduced blood flow in the cerebellum, vermis, and brainstem. After 8 weeks, his depressive state and delusion improved; however, his cenesthopathy persisted. We encountered a case of a severe depressive state with cenesthopathy and delusion in a young Japanese man with SCA3. This case supports previous studies that the cerebellum could have a role beyond motor functions.


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Enfermedad de Machado-Joseph , Masculino , Humanos , Adulto , Enfermedad de Machado-Joseph/complicaciones , Enfermedad de Machado-Joseph/diagnóstico por imagen , Enfermedad de Machado-Joseph/tratamiento farmacológico , Olanzapina/uso terapéutico , Deluciones/diagnóstico por imagen , Deluciones/tratamiento farmacológico , Deluciones/etiología , Japón , Cerebelo/diagnóstico por imagen
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Brain ; 144(3): 999-1012, 2021 04 12.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33501939

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Although psychosis is a defining feature of Lewy body disease, psychotic symptoms occur in a subset of patients with every major neurodegenerative disease. Few studies, however, have compared disease-related rates of psychosis prevalence in a large autopsy-based cohort, and it remains unclear how diseases differ with respect to the nature or content of the psychosis. We conducted a retrospective chart review of 372 patients with autopsy-confirmed neurodegenerative pathology: 111 with Alzheimer's disease, 59 with Lewy body disease and concomitant Alzheimer's disease, 133 with frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) with tau inclusions (including progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal degeneration or Pick's disease), and 69 with FTLD and TDP inclusions (FTLD-TDP, including types A-C). Psychosis content was classified by subtype, and the frequency of each subtype was compared among pathological diagnoses using logistic regression. A total of 111 of 372 patients had psychosis. Compared to other groups, patients with Lewy body disease/Alzheimer's disease pathology were significantly more likely to have hallucinations and were more likely to have more than one subtype of hallucination. Patients with Braak Parkinson stage 5-6 Lewy body disease were significantly more likely than those with no Lewy body disease to have visual hallucinations of misperception, peripheral hallucinations, hallucinations that moved, hallucinations of people/animals/objects, as well as delusions regarding a place and delusions of misidentification. The feeling of a presence occurred significantly more frequently in patients with Lewy body disease/Alzheimer's disease than all other pathologies. Patients with FTLD-TDP were significantly more likely to have delusions, and for the delusions to occur in the first 3 years of the disease, when compared to patients with Alzheimer's disease and FTLD-tau, though rates were not significantly greater than patients with Lewy body disease/Alzheimer's disease. Paranoia occurred more frequently in the FTLD-TDP and Lewy body disease/Alzheimer's disease categories compared to patients with Alzheimer's disease or FTLD-tau. Patients with FTLD-TDP pathology had delusions of misidentification as frequently as patients with Lewy body disease/Alzheimer's disease, and were significantly more likely to have self-elevating delusions such as grandiosity and erotomania compared to patients with other pathologies including FTLD-tau. These data show that the nature and content of psychosis can provide meaningful information about the underlying neurodegenerative pathology, emphasizing the importance of characterizing patients' psychoses for prediction of the neuropathological diagnosis, regardless of a patient's clinical syndrome.


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Deluciones/etiología , Alucinaciones/etiología , Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas/complicaciones , Trastornos Psicóticos/etiología , Anciano , Deluciones/epidemiología , Femenino , Alucinaciones/epidemiología , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Prevalencia , Trastornos Psicóticos/epidemiología
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Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35603676

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OBJECTIVES: Delirium may be divided into multiple subtypes with different pathological factors. This study aimed to focus on the delirium subtype in which delusions are conspicuous and explore its prevalence, clinical characteristics, and risk factors. METHODS: The subjects were 601 delirium cases referred to the department of psychiatry over 5 years at a general hospital. The Delirium Rating Scale-Revised-98 was used to assess the delusions in patients with delirium, and the features of delusions (delusional form, object, and content) were examined. Multiple regression analysis was applied to determine whether individual factors were associated with the delusions. RESULTS: A total of 78 patients with delirium experienced delusions (13.0%). Most were classified as delusion of reference, such as persecution or poisoning, and 84.3% of patients believed that the persecutors were medical staff members. Older age (p < 0.001), female gender (p < 0.001), and living alone (p < 0.001) were significantly associated with delusions in patients with delirium. CONCLUSIONS: The content of delusions was rooted in the distress caused by the patients' medical situation, and the features and risk factors of the delusions suggested a formal similarity with late paraphrenia and "lack-of-contact paranoia." Psychological interventions that consider the isolation, anxiety, and fear behind delusions may be necessary in the care and treatment of these patients.


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Delirio , Deluciones , Ansiedad , Delirio/epidemiología , Delirio/etiología , Delirio/psicología , Deluciones/epidemiología , Deluciones/etiología , Deluciones/psicología , Femenino , Humanos , Prevalencia , Factores de Riesgo
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BMC Psychiatry ; 22(1): 360, 2022 05 27.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35624473

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BACKGROUND: Till that date, a sparse body of research has been dedicated to perusing psychotic symptoms of sexual type, particularly in psychiatric populations. Our study's objective was to delineate psychotic symptoms with a sexual content, namely sexual delusions and hallucinations, among inpatients diagnosed with schizophrenia in Lebanon, and scrutinize their relationships with the severity of schizophrenia symptoms and childhood abusive events. METHODS: We conducted structured interviews with 167 chronic schizophrenia patients, who completed the Questionnaire for Psychotic Symptoms with a Sexual Content, the Child Abuse Self-Report Scale, and the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale. RESULTS: 36.5% and 50.3% of the participants screened positive for current and lifetime episodes of sexual delusions and/or hallucinations, respectively. Alcohol drinking (aOR (adjusted odds ratio)current = 2.17; aORLifetime = 2.86) and increased psychological (aORcurrent = 1.09; aORLifetime = 1.09) and sexual (aORcurrent = 1.23; aORLifetime = 1.70) abuse were significantly associated with higher chances of experiencing current and lifetime sexual hallucinations and/or delusions. Additionally, an increased severity of schizophrenia symptoms (aOR = 1.02) was significantly associated with higher chances of current sexual hallucinations and/or delusions, whereas having a university level of education compared to primary (aOR = 0.15) was significantly associated with lower odds of current sexual hallucinations and/or delusions. CONCLUSION: In sum, our findings suggest that sexual psychotic symptoms are prevalent in chronic schizophrenia patients, providing support for their associations with antecedents of childhood traumatic experiences, illness severity, and substance use disorders. They endorse the vitalness of preventive measures against abuse, in order to circumvent such phenomenological outcomes. Our study offers the first data on sexual hallucinations and delusions in a non-Western psychiatric population, thus allowing clinicians and researchers to draw featural comparisons across different cultural settings.


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Esquizofrenia , Niño , Estudios Transversales , Deluciones/complicaciones , Deluciones/etiología , Alucinaciones/diagnóstico , Alucinaciones/epidemiología , Alucinaciones/etiología , Humanos , Esquizofrenia/complicaciones , Esquizofrenia/epidemiología , Índice de Severidad de la Enfermedad
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Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen ; 142(15)2022 10 25.
Artículo en Inglés, Noruego | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36286565

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A woman in her early 20s with a rare neurogenetic syndrome was admitted to the Psychiatric Department on suspicion of a psychotic disorder. During the course of her illness, the patient suffered episodes with involuntary eye movements, behavioural changes and psychotic symptoms that were difficult to treat.


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Distonía , Trastornos Psicóticos , Humanos , Femenino , Deluciones/etiología , Deluciones/diagnóstico , Deluciones/psicología , Movimientos Oculares , Alucinaciones/etiología , Alucinaciones/diagnóstico , Alucinaciones/psicología , Trastornos Psicóticos/complicaciones , Trastornos Psicóticos/diagnóstico , Trastornos Psicóticos/tratamiento farmacológico , Hospitalización , Distonía/diagnóstico , Distonía/etiología
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Clin Gerontol ; 45(3): 681-695, 2022.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34369313

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OBJECTIVES: This study describes the person-centered experience and impact of symptoms and the treatment needs of dementia-related psychosis (DRP) from a patient and care partner perspective. METHODS: Qualitative interviews and a quantitative survey were used to collect patient experience data from persons with DRP or their care partners. RESULTS: Sixteen participants (1 person with DRP, 15 care partners) completed the qualitative interview; 212 participants (26 persons with DRP, 186 care partners) completed the quantitative survey. The most commonly reported symptoms were visual hallucinations, auditory hallucinations, persecutory delusions, and distortion of senses. The most common impacts were difficulty differentiating what is real from what is not real, increased anxiety, and effects on personal relationships. Current treatments were less than moderately helpful, and the ability to distinguish what is real from what is not real and overall symptom improvement were described as the most important benefits of an ideal treatment. CONCLUSIONS: Patient experience data provide insights into urgent therapeutic needs of patients by describing the nature, frequency, and severity of symptoms and the impacts they have on individuals' lives. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Patient experience data demonstrate an unmet need for treatments to reduce the symptoms and impacts of DRP.


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Demencia , Trastornos Psicóticos , Deluciones/diagnóstico , Deluciones/etiología , Deluciones/terapia , Demencia/complicaciones , Demencia/diagnóstico , Demencia/terapia , Alucinaciones/etiología , Alucinaciones/terapia , Humanos , Evaluación del Resultado de la Atención al Paciente , Trastornos Psicóticos/complicaciones , Trastornos Psicóticos/diagnóstico , Trastornos Psicóticos/terapia
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Vertex ; XXXIII(155): 72-74, 2022 Mar.
Artículo en Español | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35438688

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Delusional misidentification syndromes are misperceptions of external stimuli with an associated belief or elaboration that is held with delusional intensity. In the TV sign patient believes that the observed television events are occurring in a real three-dimensional space. It is one of the very rare forms of delusional misidentification syndrome in patients withdementia.Wereport7patientswithcognitiveimpairmentcaseswhohavepresentedTVsignduringtheCOVID-19 pandemic. Two patients had Alzheimer's dementia type diagnosis, 1 atypical Alzheimer dementia, 1 vascular dementia and 3 of them had mixed etiology (2 Alzheimer dementia + vascular and 1 dementia with Lewy bodies + vascular). Three presented other psychotic symptoms and 1 patient also had Capgras syndrome. These 7 cases series raise the possibility of an increase incidence of TV sign in patients with dementia during pandemia triggered by the rise in expo- sure to screen devices and a social isolation during this period.


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Enfermedad de Alzheimer/complicaciones , Deluciones/etiología , Trastornos Psicóticos , Aislamiento Social/psicología , Realidad Virtual , Deluciones/diagnóstico , Deluciones/epidemiología , Humanos , Incidencia , Pandemias , Televisión
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Ann Neurol ; 87(6): 950-961, 2020 06.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32281118

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OBJECTIVE: The pathology of frontotemporal dementia, termed frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), is characterized by distinct molecular classes of aggregated proteins, the most common being TAR DNA-binding protein-43 (TDP-43), tau, and fused in sarcoma (FUS). With a few exceptions, it is currently not possible to predict the underlying pathology based on the clinical syndrome. In this study, we set out to investigate the relationship between pathological and clinical presentation at single symptom level, including neuropsychiatric features. METHODS: The presence or absence of symptoms from the current clinical guidelines, together with neuropsychiatric features, such as hallucinations and delusions, were scored and compared across pathological groups in a cohort of 150 brain donors. RESULTS: Our cohort consisted of 68.6% FTLD donors (35.3% TDP-43, 28% tau, and 5.3% FUS) and 31.3% non-FTLD donors with a clinical diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia and a different pathological substrate, such as Alzheimer's disease (23%). The presence of hyperorality points to FTLD rather than non-FTLD pathology (p < 0.001). Within the FTLD group, hallucinations in the initial years of the disease were related to TDP-43 pathology (p = 0.02), including but not limited to chromosome 9 open reading frame 72 (C9orf72) repeat expansion carriers. The presence of perseverative or compulsive behavior was more common in the TDP-B and TDP-C histotypes (p = 0.002). INTERPRETATION: Our findings indicate that neuropsychiatric features are common in FTLD and form an important indicator of underlying pathology. In order to allow better inclusion of patients in targeted molecular trials, the routine evaluation of patients with frontotemporal dementia should include the presence and nature of neuropsychiatric symptoms. ANN NEUROL 2020;87:950-961.


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Demencia Frontotemporal/patología , Demencia Frontotemporal/psicología , Anciano , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Enfermedad de Alzheimer/sangre , Enfermedad de Alzheimer/psicología , Autopsia , Encéfalo/patología , Estudios de Cohortes , Proteínas de Unión al ADN/sangre , Deluciones/etiología , Deluciones/psicología , Diagnóstico Diferencial , Femenino , Demencia Frontotemporal/metabolismo , Degeneración Lobar Frontotemporal/patología , Alucinaciones/etiología , Alucinaciones/psicología , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Proteína FUS de Unión a ARN/sangre
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