Nonschizophrenic Paranoid Syndromes

Hemispheric imbalances masquerading as paranoid and nonparanoid syndromes?

Evidence from psychophysiological and behavioral investigations of lateralization in psychosis separates two clinical syndromes. A speculative model is offered in which the syndromes approximate the clinical features of paranoid compared with nonparanoid patients in investigations in which the groups have been distinguished in the psychology laboratory (Magaro 1980), and encompass the distincti...

Paranoid? Who Says I'm Paranoid?

Neuropsychological Assessment in Patients with Paranoid and Non-Paranoid Schizophrenia

Amaç: Şizofrenide bilişsel bozulmalar şizofreninin değişik belirti alt tipleriyle bağlantılıdır. Paranoid tip şizofrenide bilişsel işlevlerin daha iyi korunduğu öne sürülmüştür. Bu çalışmada, nöropsikolojik ölçümlerin, paranoid şizofreni hastalarını paranoid olmayanlardan ayrıştırıp ayrıştırmadığının değerlendirilmesi amaçlanmıştır. Yöntemler: Bu çalışmaya DSM-IV ölçütlerine göre 26 paranoid ti...

The Paranoid Patient

I he paranoid patient suffers deeply from pervasive feelings of being mistreated and misunderstood, hypervigilance, and an acute sensitivity to real or imagined slights. He is suspicious of other people's motives and may distrust those he loves most or to whom he is most attached. This patient harbors simmering anger and grudges toward those he feels may have deceived him or taken unfair advant...

Visual figural aftereffect in schizophrenic and nonschizophrenic patients.

Controlling for possible treatment effects, medication, E bias, and constancy of fixation, schizophrenic patients were found to have a smaller figural aftereffect than a nonschizophrenic group. Earlier reports of displacement of the T figure toward the I figure in schizophrenic patients were confirmed. 10 of the 11 Ss who did not maintain constant fixation were schizophrenic patients. This find...