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Delusional Disorder
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BehaveNet® Clinical Capsule™: Delusional Disorder - This psychotic
mental disorder is diagnosed when prominent nonbizarre delusions are
present for at least one month and the symptom criteria for Schizophrenia
have never been met.
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Delusional Disorder, American Description - Nonbizarre delusions
(i.e., involving situations that occur in real life, such as being
followed, poisoned, infected, loved at a distance, or deceived by spouse
or lover, or having a disease) of at least 1 month's duration. Criterion A
for Schizophrenia has never been met. Note: Tactile and olfactory
hallucinations may be present in Delusional Disorder if they are related
to the delusional theme. Mental Health.com
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Delusion Disorder, European Description - The ICD-10 Classification
for Delusional Disorder. This group of disorders is characterized by the
development either of a single delusion or of a set of related delusions
which are usually persistent and sometimes lifelong. The delusions are
highly variable in content. Often they are persecutory, hypochondriacal,
or grandiose, but they may be concerned with litigation or jealousy, or
express a conviction that the individual's body is misshapen, or that
others think that he or she smells or is homosexual. Mental Health.com
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eMedicine: Delusional Disorder - Delusional disorder, as defined in
the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV), refers to a group of
conditions in which the central feature is the presence of delusions in
the absence of other symptomatology.
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The Merck Manual: Delusional Disorder - The central feature of
delusional disorder (previously called paranoid disorder) is the presence
of one or more false beliefs that persist for at least 1 month. Delusions
tend to be nonbizarre and involve situations that could occur, such as
being followed, poisoned, infected, loved at a distance, or deceived by
one's spouse or lover.
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Thursday May 20, 2010
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