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PARANOIA [11 records]

Record 1 2024-12-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology
CONT

Pronoia is... a state of mind that is, in essence, the positive counterpart of paranoia. It is characterized by feeling that the world is conspiring on behalf of the person experiencing pronoia.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-03-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
  • Mental Disorders
  • Nervous System
CONT

Responsive behaviours and reactive behaviours are terms commonly used to refer to actions, words or gestures presented by a person with dementia as a way of responding to something negative, frustrating or confusing in their social and physical environment. Some common examples of responsive behaviour include : aggression; agitation; wandering; restlessness; hallucinations; paranoia; making unexpected noises; becoming more withdrawn.

OBS

behavioural symptom; behavioral symptom: These designations are sometimes considered pejorative.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
  • Troubles mentaux
  • Système nerveux
CONT

Un comportement réactif réfère à une réponse en geste, en actions ou en mots (ex. : errance, agitation, apathie) d'une personne qui a des atteintes cognitives face à son environnement social, personnel ou physique pour communiquer un besoin ou un sentiment d'inquiétude [...]

OBS

symptôme comportemental : Cette désignation est parfois considérée comme péjorative.

Spanish

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Record 3 2024-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
  • Mental Disorders
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
CONT

Visual hallucinations are the most common type of hallucinations while paranoia is the most common delusional feature.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
  • Troubles mentaux
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
CONT

Plus fréquemment, il s'agira d'un trouble bipolaire prenant des caractéristiques délirantes et mimant un début de schizophrénie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Psicología (Generalidades)
  • Trastornos mentales
  • Síntomas (Medicina)
CONT

Esta tendencia a empequeñecer a otros y reducirlos, puede ser vista como una característica delirante que acompaña el delirio de grandeza.

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Record 4 2023-12-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychoses
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
CONT

Alcohol can cause paranoia, making those who heavily use alcohol suspicious of the actions of others. Paranoia is a form of psychosis because it is not founded in reality. It cannot be dismissed with rational explanations, and a person who has developed alcohol-related paranoia will not be able to be talked out of it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychoses
  • Drogues et toxicomanie

Spanish

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Record 5 2012-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Mental Disorders
Universal entry(ies)
297.2
classification system code
DEF

Disorder characterized by phantasmic ... paralogical disillusions without deterioration ... or loss of contact with reality except in the area of the disillusional system.

OBS

Term(& French equivalent) extracted from the 9th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases(ICD-9). A diagnostic concept which includes both paranoia and dementia praecox.

OBS

297.2: International Classification of Diseases code.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie clinique
  • Troubles mentaux
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
297.2
classification system code
OBS

Terme proposé par Kraepelin pour désigner des psychoses délirantes chroniques qui, comme la paranoïa, ne s'accompagnent pas d'affaiblissement intellectuel et n'évoluent pas vers la démence mais se rapprochent de la schizophrénie.

OBS

297.2 : code de la Classification internationale des maladies.

Spanish

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Record 6 2006-08-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychoses
DEF

Chronic paranoid psychosis characterized by delusional jealousy and associated with alcoholism.

OBS

Not to be confused with "alcoholic paranoia", "nonalcoholic paranoid states", "schizophrenia, paranoid type".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychoses
DEF

Psychose délirante chronique caractérisée par des idées délirantes de jalousie et associée à l'alcoolisme.

OBS

Ne pas confondre avec «paranoïa alcoolique», «états délirants non alcooliques» «schizophrénie, forme paranoïde».

Spanish

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Record 7 2005-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Behaviour
  • Mental Disorders
CONT

In other words, reasoned judgement is no longer a legitimate tool of law enforcement, especially where organized paranoia will suffice.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement humain
  • Troubles mentaux

Spanish

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Record 8 1998-03-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nervous System
CONT

Theory demonstrates that such consciousness states as "love" or "mystical" states are only states of exceedingly low paranoia and of progressively intensified sociability. In fact, there seems to be a "circuit of paranoia" in the CNS which would generate both paranoia and sociability, depending on how it is activated. Hyperactivation of this system would generate paranoid states while hypoactivation would generate sociable states, from love to mystical states. It is thus hypothesised that depressing paranoia(naturally or pharmacologically) leads automatically to increased sociability(probably through oxytocinergic neuromediation, etc.) while increasing paranoia(like with pentazocine, phenylisopropylamines) leads to associability and some psychopathologies such as paranoid schizophrenia, etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Système nerveux
DEF

Transmission de l'influx nerveux d'une cellule nerveuse à une autre.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sistema nervioso
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Record 9 1995-04-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Behaviour
  • Mental Disorders
DEF

A chronic, slowly progressive mental disorder (personality disorder) characterized by the development of ambitions or suspicions into systematized delusions of persecution and grandeur which are built up in a logical form.

OBS

May occur in systemic lupus erythematosus or be due to corticosteroids.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement humain
  • Troubles mentaux
DEF

[...] troubles du caractère spécifiés par l'orgueil, la méfiance, une susceptibilité exagérée, un jugement faux, une tendance aux interprétations qui favorise un délire et engendre des réactions agressives.

OBS

Peut s'observer dans le lupus érythémateux disséminé ou à la suite d'une corticothérapie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Comportamiento humano
  • Trastornos mentales
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Record 10 1994-06-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
  • Mental Disorders
DEF

Form of schizophrenia in which relatively stable delusions, which may be accompanied by hallucinations, dominate the clinical picture. The delusions are frequently of persecution but may take other forms (for example of jealousy, exalted birth, Messianic mission, or bodily change). Hallucinations and erratic behaviour may occur; in some cases conduct is seriously disturbed from the outset, thought disorder may be gross, and affective flattening with fragmentary delusions and hallucinations may develop.

OBS

Not to be confused with the following associated conditions : paraphrenia, involutional paranoid state(297. 2) and paranoia(297. 1).

Key term(s)
  • 295.3
  • paranoid type of schizophrenic psychosis

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
  • Troubles mentaux
DEF

Forme de schizophrénie dans laquelle le tableau clinique est dominé par des idées délirantes relativement stables qui peuvent s'accompagner d'hallucinations. Les idées délirantes sont souvent des idées de persécution, mais elles peuvent prendre aussi d'autres formes (par exemple, de jalousie, d'ascendance illustre, de mission messianique ou de transformation corporelle). Des hallucinations et un comportement excentrique peuvent exister; dans certains cas, la conduite est gravement altérée dès le début, le trouble de la pensée peut être massif et on peut voir s'installer une indifférence avec idées délirantes et hallucinations fragmentaires.

OBS

Ne pas confondre avec les états somatiques ou neurologiques associés qui suivent : état délirant involutif; paraphrénie (297.2) et paranoïa (297.1).

Key term(s)
  • 295.3
  • forme paranoïde de la psychose schizophrénique

Spanish

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Record 11 1979-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
DEF

The process of exploring and experimenting with the environment in order to discover the nature of things, people, and events, and the difference between reality and fantasy. Reality testing is a basic, essential process which begins in the early years of life when the child actively tries to find out what the world is like and what he can do with it.... Psychosis, particularly schizophrenia and paranoia, is sometimes defined as an impairment of reality testing. Loss of contact with reality means that the patient has ceased to test his ideas against the outer world.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
DEF

Processus postulé par Freud, permettant au sujet de distinguer les stimuli provenant du monde extérieur des stimuli internes, et de prévenir la confusion possible entre ce que le sujet perçoit et ce qu'il ne fait que se représenter, confusion qui serait au principe de l'hallucination.

Spanish

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