Delusional (Paranoid) Disorders: Etiologic and Taxonomic Considerations. I. The Possible Significance of Organic Brain Factors in Etiology of Delusional Disorders

1988 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 171-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Munro
Keyword(s):  
Paranoid Type ◽  
Organic Brain

The term “Paranoid Disorders” is used vaguely and indiscriminately by many authors. This article provides brief working descriptions of a small number of paranoid/delusional conditions and, making reference to the author's series of monodelusional disorders, describes certain organic brain factors which appear to be surprisingly common in the background of these cases. It is hypothesized that the group of paranoid/delusional disorders may be linked to schizophrenia, especially of the paranoid type: however, in the paranoid/delusional disorders, hereditary schizophrenic factors may be weak and adverse organic brain factors relatively much stronger.

Effect of Marriage on Pre-existing Psychoses: A Convenient or Futile Solution for Severe Mental Disorders?

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 273-276
Author(s):  
Prakash B. Behere ◽  
Aniruddh P. Behere ◽  
Debolina Chowdhury ◽  
Amit B. Nagdive ◽  
Richa Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Age Of Onset ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Positive Family History ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Psychotic Symptoms ◽  
Antipsychotic Treatment ◽  
Contractual Relationship ◽  
History Of ◽  
Paranoid Type

Marriage can be defined as the state of being united as spouses in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law. The general population generally believes marriage to be a solution to mental illnesses. It can be agreed that mental disorders and marital issues have some relation. Parents of patients with psychoses expect that marriage is the solution to the illness and often approach doctors and seek validation about the success of the marriage of their mentally ill child, which is a guarantee no doctor can give in even normal circumstances. Evidence on sexual functioning in patients of psychosis is limited and needs further understanding. Studies show about 60%–70% women of the schizophrenia spectrum and illness to experience sexual difficulties. Based on available information, sexual dysfunction in population with psychosis can be attributed to a variety of psychosocial factors, ranging from the psychotic symptoms in itself to social stigma and institutionalization and also due to the antipsychotic treatment. Despite the decline in sexual activity and quality of life in general, it is very rarely addressed by both the treating doctor and by the patient themselves hence creating a lacuna in the patient’s care and availability of information regarding the illness’ pathophysiology. Patients become noncompliant with medications due to this undesirable effect and hence it requires to be given more attention during treatment. It was also found that paranoid type of schizophrenia patient had lower chances of separation than patients with other types of schizophrenia. The risk of relapse in cases with later age of onset of the disease, lower education, a positive family history of psychosis or a lower income increased more than other populations.

Quantitative Brain Measurements in Chronic Schizophrenia

1972 ◽  
Vol 121 (562) ◽  
pp. 259-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall Rosenthal ◽  
Llewellyn B. Bigelow
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Schizophrenia ◽  
Controlled Study ◽  
Normal Variation ◽  
Autopsy Material ◽  
Organic Brain Disease ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients ◽  
Organic Brain ◽  
Brain Measurements ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Brain

Despite extensive gross and microscopic scrutiny, no consistent pathological findings have emerged from studies of autopsy material from schizophrenic patients. Dunlap (1924) carried out the first controlled study involving schizophrenic and control brains and concluded that ‘there was not even a suspicion of consistent organic brain disease as a basis for the psychosis of schizophrenia’. More recently both Wolf and Cowen (1952), and Weinstein (1954), reviewed the neuropathological literature and concluded that there were no consistent findings at autopsy that could be construed as characteristic of schizophrenia. These authors felt that earlier claims were based on failure to appreciate the range of normal variation in the brain as well as a failure to include an adequate control population in the study.

Occurrence of mirtazapine-induced delirium in organic brain disorder

2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 239-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Bailer ◽  
P. Fischer ◽  
B. Küfferle ◽  
J. Stastny ◽  
S. Kasper
Keyword(s):  
Brain Disorder ◽  
Organic Brain

Old Age Mental Disorders in Newcastle upon Tyne

1964 ◽  
Vol 110 (468) ◽  
pp. 668-682 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. W. K. Kay ◽  
P. Beamish ◽  
Martin Roth
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Functional Disorders ◽  
Old People ◽  
Social Contacts ◽  
Medical Status ◽  
Organic Brain ◽  
Domestic Support ◽  
Newcastle Upon Tyne

In a previous paper (Kay, Beamish and Roth, 1963) we studied the prevalence of various kinds of psychiatric disorder in a random sample of old people living at home in Newcastle upon Tyne. During the interviews, special attention was paid to the collection of social data. For, as Townsend (1957a) pointed out, old age is an epoch of diminishing social contacts and domestic support, and isolated old people make disproportionately heavy demands on the institutions of the Health and Welfare Services. By comparing the medical status and social circumstances of subjects with organic brain syndromes, those with functional disorders, and those without psychiatric abnormality, we have attempted to explore further the relative importance of these factors in the two main groups of mental disorders in old age.

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