Delusions of Vampirism in an Adolescent and Treatment With Clozapine: A Case Report

This case describes delusions of vampirism among several other psychotic symptoms in a 15-year-old who has a diagnosis of schizophrenia, with these delusions first presenting when he was 13 years of age. Delusions of vampirism can be associated with a strong desire to suck human blood but these delu...

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Autores principales: O'Brien, Catherine, Hallahan, Brian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
Materias:
Psychiatry
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10619181/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37920644
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46352
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description This case describes delusions of vampirism among several other psychotic symptoms in a 15-year-old who has a diagnosis of schizophrenia, with these delusions first presenting when he was 13 years of age. Delusions of vampirism can be associated with a strong desire to suck human blood but these delusional beliefs were not acted upon here. This is the first report of delusions of vampirism in childhood to date. The introduction of the antipsychotic medication clozapine after failed treatment trials with two other antipsychotic agents has been associated with a significant amelioration in symptomatology and an improvement in functioning.
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spelling pubmed-106191812023-11-02 Delusions of Vampirism in an Adolescent and Treatment With Clozapine: A Case Report O'Brien, Catherine Hallahan, Brian Cureus Psychiatry This case describes delusions of vampirism among several other psychotic symptoms in a 15-year-old who has a diagnosis of schizophrenia, with these delusions first presenting when he was 13 years of age. Delusions of vampirism can be associated with a strong desire to suck human blood but these delusional beliefs were not acted upon here. This is the first report of delusions of vampirism in childhood to date. The introduction of the antipsychotic medication clozapine after failed treatment trials with two other antipsychotic agents has been associated with a significant amelioration in symptomatology and an improvement in functioning. Cureus 2023-10-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10619181/ /pubmed/37920644 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46352 Text en Copyright © 2023, O'Brien et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Delusions of Vampirism in an Adolescent and Treatment With Clozapine: A Case Report
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