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  2. Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory - Wikipedia

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    Based on 129 participants, the test-retest reliability of the MCMI-IV personality and clinical syndrome scales ranged from 0.73 (Delusional) to 0.93 (Histrionic) with a most values above 0.80. [1] These statistics indicate that the measure is highly stable over a short period of time; however, no long-term data are available.

  3. Delusional disorder - Wikipedia

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    The prevalence of this condition stands at about 24 to 30 cases per 100,000 people while 0.7 to 3.0 new cases per 100,000 people are reported every year. Delusional disorder accounts for 1–2% of admissions to inpatient mental health facilities. [7] [30] The incidence of first admissions for delusional disorder is lower, from 0.001 to 0.003%. [31]

  4. DSM-5 - Wikipedia

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    Criteria for delusional disorder changed, and it is no longer separate from shared delusional disorder. [11] Catatonia in all contexts requires 3 of a total of 12 symptoms. Catatonia may be a specifier for depressive, bipolar, and psychotic disorders; part of another medical condition; or of another specified diagnosis. [11]

  5. List of mental disorders in the DSM-IV and DSM-IV-TR

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    This is a list of mental disorders as defined in the DSM-IV, the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.Published by the American Psychiatry Association (APA), it was released in May 1994, [1] superseding the DSM-III-R (1987).

  6. Reality testing - Wikipedia

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    Reality testing is the psychotherapeutic function by which the objective or real world and one's relationship to it are reflected on and evaluated by the observer. This process of distinguishing the internal world of thoughts and feelings from the external world is a technique commonly used in psychoanalysis and behavior therapy, and was originally devised by Sigmund Freud.

  7. 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 ...

  8. 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, paralogia (a reasoning disorder characterized by expression of illogical or delusional thoughts), word salad, and delusions—all disturbances of thought content ...

  9. Paraphrenia - Wikipedia

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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".