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  2. Delusional misidentification syndrome - Wikipedia

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    In rare instances, it can include delusions of immortality. [9] Syndrome of delusional companions is the belief that objects (such as soft toys) are sentient beings. [10] Clonal pluralization of the self, where a person believes there are multiple copies of themselves, identical both physically and psychologically, but physically separate and ...

  3. Delusional disorder - Wikipedia

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    Other psychiatric disorders must then be ruled out. In delusional disorder, mood symptoms tend to be brief or absent, and unlike schizophrenia, delusions are non-bizarre and hallucinations are minimal or absent. [8] Interviews are important tools to obtain information about the patient's life situation and history to help make a diagnosis.

  4. Delusion - Wikipedia

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    A delusion [a] is a false fixed belief that is not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence. [2] As a pathology, it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information, confabulation, dogma, illusion, hallucination, or some other misleading effects of perception, as individuals with those beliefs are able to change or readjust their beliefs upon reviewing the evidence.

  5. Mental status examination - Wikipedia

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    The mental status examination (MSE) is an important part of the clinical assessment process in neurological and psychiatric practice. It is a structured way of observing and describing a patient's psychological functioning at a given point in time, under the domains of appearance, attitude, behavior, mood and affect, speech, thought process, thought content, perception, cognition, insight, and ...

  6. Glossary of psychiatry - Wikipedia

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    This is one of the types of primary delusions in which a firm belief comes into the individual's mind "out of the blue" or as an intuition, hence called "delusional intuition". Other types of primary delusions include delusional mood (or atmosphere), delusional (apophanous) perception and delusional memories.

  7. Thought disorder - Wikipedia

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    A thought disorder (TD) is a disturbance in cognition which affects language, thought and communication. [1] [2] Psychiatric and psychological glossaries in 2015 and 2017 identified thought disorders as encompassing poverty of ideas, neologisms, paralogia (a reasoning disorder characterized by expression of illogical or delusional thoughts), word salad, and delusions—all disturbances of ...

  8. Altered level of consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Disoriented; restlessness, hallucinations, sometimes delusions Some scales have "delirious" below this level, in which a person may be restless or agitated and exhibit a marked deficit in attention. [2] Somnolent: Sleepy A somnolent person shows excessive drowsiness and responds to stimuli only with incoherent mumbles or disorganized movements. [8]

  9. List of medical mnemonics - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of mnemonics used in medicine and medical science, categorized and alphabetized. A mnemonic is any technique that assists the human memory with information retention or retrieval by making abstract or impersonal information more accessible and meaningful, and therefore easier to remember; many of them are acronyms or initialisms which reduce a lengthy set of terms to a single ...