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Descriptive and Psychodynamic Psychopathology EMIs
Published in Michael Reilly, Bangaru Raju, Extended Matching Items for the MRCPsych Part 1, 2018
Autoscopy.Capgras’ syndrome.Cotard’s syndrome.De Clérambault’s syndrome.Delusional jealously.Fregoli delusion.Illusion de sosies.Intermetamorphosis delusion.Reverse subjective double syndrome.Subjective doubles delusion.
Signs and Symptoms in Psychiatry
Published in Mohamed Ahmed Abd El-Hay, Essentials of Psychiatric Assessment, 2018
Autoscopy: the experience of seeing all or part of one’s own body projected into external space, usually in front of oneself, for short periods. This experience may convince the person that he/she has a double. It occurs in a small minority of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy or other organic brain disorders.
Questions and Answers
Published in David Browne, Brenda Wright, Guy Molyneux, Mohamed Ahmed, Ijaz Hussain, Bangaru Raju, Michael Reilly, MRCPsych Paper I One-Best-Item MCQs, 2017
David Browne, Brenda Wright, Guy Molyneux, Mohamed Ahmed, Ijaz Hussain, Bangaru Raju, Michael Reilly
Answer: D. Autoscopy is the experience of seeing oneself and knowing that it is oneself. Extracampine hallucinations are where the hallucinations are outside the normal limits of the sensory fields. Reflex hallucinations are where a stimulus in one sensory modality triggers a hallucination in another modality. Functional hallucinations are where the triggering stimulus and the hallucination occur in the same modality. [T. p. 85]
Delusion, possession and religion†
Published in Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 2018
Antonio Ventriglio, Iris Bonfitto, Fabiana Ricci, Federica Cuoco, Vishal Bhavsar
Based on an assessment of religious phenomena in epilepsy, near-death experiences, hallucinogenic effects, psychotic disorders and dementias, it has been postulated that the limbic system may produce states of divergent affects and cognitions, such as perceptions of overheated importance or self-reference, deep joy and noetic feelings, typically found in religious and mystical experiences. Other evidence supports temporolimbic overactivity as an underlying process in religious/psychotic phenomena. Dysfunctional mesolimbic activity can generate altered perceptions of reality, including distorted sense of time, autoscopy, depersonalization, derealization, de ´ja` vu and jamais vu, and the direct stimulation of these areas, may result in similar events [16,17].