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A paranoid reaction may be caused from a decline in brain circulation as a result of high blood pressure or hardening of the arterial walls. [10] Drug-induced paranoia, associated with cannabis and stimulants like amphetamines or methamphetamine, has much in common with schizophrenic paranoia; the relationship has been under investigation since ...
Paranoid personality disorder (PPD) is a mental disorder characterized by paranoia, and a pervasive, long-standing suspiciousness and generalized mistrust of others. People with this personality disorder may be hypersensitive, easily insulted, and habitually relate to the world by vigilant scanning of the environment for clues or suggestions that may validate their fears or biases.
Similar factors have led to criticisms of Jaspers' definition of delusion as being ultimately 'un-understandable'. Critics (such as R. D. Laing ) have argued that this leads to the diagnosis of delusions being based on the subjective understanding of a particular psychiatrist, who may not have access to all the information that might make a ...
The Brain Aneurysm Foundation reports that 1 in 50 people in the U.S. has an unruptured or intact aneurysm (an aneurysm in the brain that is not bleeding). However, the annual rate of an aneurysm ...
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Paraphrenia is often associated with a physical change in the brain, such as a tumor, stroke, ventricular enlargement, or neurodegenerative process. [4] Research that reviewed the relationship between organic brain lesions and the development of delusions suggested that "brain lesions which lead to subcortical dysfunction could produce delusions when elaborated by an intact cortex".
Anxiety is the Big Bad Wolf of the modern wellness conversation: How to get rid of it, how to get to sleep with it, how to meditate it away. But what if there’s another way of interpreting anxiety?
Stimulant psychosis is a mental disorder characterized by psychotic symptoms (such as hallucinations, paranoid ideation, delusions, disorganized thinking, grossly disorganized behaviour). It involves and typically occurs following an overdose or several day binge on psychostimulants , [ 1 ] although it can occur in the course of stimulant ...