We compared 20 patients with late-onset schizophrenia, 7 with delusional disorder with hallucinations (paraphrenia), and 13 with delusional disorder without hallucinations (late-onset paranoia). We found that these three categories could be distinguished from each other on some clinical parameters. Late-onset schizophrenia was characterized by bizarre delusions; auditory hallucinations; to a le...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Biased processing of negatively valenced, and particularly threat-related material plays an important role in the development of paranoid thinking. This has been demonstrated by superior memory for threat-related information in patients with persecutory delusions and in non-clinical paranoia-prone participants. This study examined how emotional material was recalled ha...

OBJECTIVE Inconsistent results have been reported regarding the symptom dimensions relevant to psychosis in symptoms check list revised (SCL90-R), i.e., "psychoticism" and "paranoid ideation". Therefore, some studies have suggested different factor structures for questions of these two dimensions, and proposed two newly defined dimensions of "schizotypal signs" and "schizophrenia nuclear sympto...

The relevance of the study lies in fact that transience changes social surrounding requires dynamism and competitiveness from a person, which forces individual to actively transform emotional regulation behaviour, particular communication relationships. However, adaptive capabilities person who is characterised by increased sensitivity frustration persistent distrust others can be considerably ...

Schizophrenia, which is distinguished by psychotic symptoms and frequently leads to social vocational decline, persists be a challenge in terms of its aetiology treatment. Physical emotional abuse from the partner can lead paranoid schizophrenia. Paranoid schizophrenia patient shows disturbed thought process due several causative agents such as chemical structural dysfunction environmental infl...