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1
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What is the DSM5 criteria for a delusional disorder?

A

delusion(s) persisting > month
Not schizophenia

outside of delusion or its ramifications, functioning not significantly impaired

not attributable to substances or other psychiatric or medical conditions

2
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Do delusion disorders involve hallucinations?

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no

3
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Are delusion disorders psychotic conditions?

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yes

4
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Are delusion disorders “thought disorders”?

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no - not like schizophenia - people with delusion disorders usually don’t appear to suffer from psychotic condition unless their specific delusion comes to light

5
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Are single or multiple delusions more common among delusion disorders?

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single - very detailed and apparently clear (crystallized) fixed false believe is more common than multiple delusions

6
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Which delusion disorder?

Delusion where patient feels someone has been replaced by an imposter

A

Capgras Delusion

7
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Which delusion disorder?

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

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Fregoli Delusion

8
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Which delusion disorder?

The delusion that one is a vampire

A

Vampirism

9
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Which delusion disorder?

The delusion that one is a werewolf

A

Lycanthropy

10
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Which delusion disorder?

The delusion that consumption of human flesh confers a unique and desirable effect that is unrelated to rescue from starvation.

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Psychopathic Cannibalism

11
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Which delusion disorder?

Syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief are transmitted from one individual to another.

A

Folie a Deux/Shared Delusion Disorder/ Zombiesm

12
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Which delusion disorder?

the delusion that one is dead, do not exist, or missing organs

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Cotard’s Delusion

13
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The delusion that one is infested, often can see or feel parasites in or on them

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Morgellons/Delusional Parasitosis

14
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a condition in which psychological stress manifests somatic symptoms of a disease with no underlying physical cause

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Conversion disorder - not a delusion disorder

15
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Which delusion disorder is most often associated with Antisocial personality, psychopathy, sociopathy

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Psychopathic Cannibalism

16
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Which delusion disorder?

Delusion in which one believes that another person, usually a stranger, high-status or famous person, is in love with them.

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Erotomanic Delusions

Stalking is common – it is delusional, not stalking for secondary gain

17
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What is the pathophysiological basis for delusion disorders?

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assumption is that they have too much mesolimbic dopamine activity similar to schizophrenia

18
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What type of delusion is Morgellons?

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Somatic delusion/ Paranoid delusion

19
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Does psychotherapy help in treatment of delusional disorders?

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May help patients cope, lower anxiety, agitation or ability to respond to these symptoms if antipsychotics fail

20
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What is flawed about the dopamine theory of delusion disorders?

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antidopaminergic antipsychotics sometimes effective but often not

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