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Rare Variant of Lycanthropy and Ecstasy
BACKGROUND: Lycanthropy is an unusual belief or delusion in which the patient thinks that he/she has been transformed into an animal. In rare cases, the patient believes that another person has been transformed into an animal. CASE REPORT: We report a patient with an uncommon variant of lycanthropy...
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Kerman University of Medical Sciences
2009
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3905497/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24494083 |
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author | Nasirian, Mansoureh Banazadeh, Nabi Kheradmand, Ali |
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description | BACKGROUND: Lycanthropy is an unusual belief or delusion in which the patient thinks that he/she has been transformed into an animal. In rare cases, the patient believes that another person has been transformed into an animal. CASE REPORT: We report a patient with an uncommon variant of lycanthropy is introduced. The symptoms appeared after consumption of ecstasy. This shows the occurrences of uncommon and rare psychosis after ecstasy drug use especially in patients susceptible to schizophrenia. Ecstasy drug can induce paranoid psychosis similar to schizophrenia. In the presented case, ecstasy seemed to have a role in patient's underlying susceptibility to schizophrenia. |
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spelling | pubmed-39054972014-02-03 Rare Variant of Lycanthropy and Ecstasy Nasirian, Mansoureh Banazadeh, Nabi Kheradmand, Ali Addict Health Case Report BACKGROUND: Lycanthropy is an unusual belief or delusion in which the patient thinks that he/she has been transformed into an animal. In rare cases, the patient believes that another person has been transformed into an animal. CASE REPORT: We report a patient with an uncommon variant of lycanthropy is introduced. The symptoms appeared after consumption of ecstasy. This shows the occurrences of uncommon and rare psychosis after ecstasy drug use especially in patients susceptible to schizophrenia. Ecstasy drug can induce paranoid psychosis similar to schizophrenia. In the presented case, ecstasy seemed to have a role in patient's underlying susceptibility to schizophrenia. Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC3905497/ /pubmed/24494083 Text en © 2009 Kerman University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Nasirian, Mansoureh Banazadeh, Nabi Kheradmand, Ali Rare Variant of Lycanthropy and Ecstasy |
title | Rare Variant of Lycanthropy and Ecstasy |
title_full | Rare Variant of Lycanthropy and Ecstasy |
title_fullStr | Rare Variant of Lycanthropy and Ecstasy |
title_full_unstemmed | Rare Variant of Lycanthropy and Ecstasy |
title_short | Rare Variant of Lycanthropy and Ecstasy |
title_sort | rare variant of lycanthropy and ecstasy |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3905497/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24494083 |
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