Delusional Procreation Syndrome: Report from TURUVECARE Community Intervention Program

New insights on Delusional Procreation Syndrome (DPS), a sequence of delusions in the cycle of human procreation are emerging in recent times. Till date, most of the data on DPS are reported from the clinical samples. Authors report case series of having delusions related to DPS from a rural communi...

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Autores principales: Manjunatha, Narayana, Reddy, Shanivaram K., Renuka Devi, N. R., Rawat, Vikram, Bijjal, Somashekar, Kumar, Naveen C., Kishrore Kumar, K. V., Thirthalli, Jagadisha, Gangadhar, B. N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3775058/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24049237
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.116261
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Sumario:New insights on Delusional Procreation Syndrome (DPS), a sequence of delusions in the cycle of human procreation are emerging in recent times. Till date, most of the data on DPS are reported from the clinical samples. Authors report case series of having delusions related to DPS from a rural community sample of schizophrenia patients. Delusion of having spouse, delusion of delivery, and delusion of being a parent are reported in this case-series. This evidence is a forward step towards the validity of DPS as a syndrome.

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