PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA: CASE REPORT

Volume 33, Number 3 (2023)

Raminta Šulskutė, Simona Galnaitytė, Indrė Usonytė Abstract Schizophrenia is a complex chronic mental disorder, that manifests with positive and negative symptoms, as well as disorganized behavior and cognitive changes, and affects around 1% of the population. Paranoia remains the most common delusion among patients diagnosed with schizophrenia. Although the etiology of schizophrenia remains unknown and…

Aspects of the Ethiology of Hallucinations

Volume 24, Number 1(92) (2014)

Justina Račkauskaitė, Vita Danilevičiūtė, Alvydas Navickas Abstract Hallucinations are misperceptions of things or events with one or more senses when an internal or external trigger doesn’t exist. They can be divided into visual, audioverbal, olfactorical, tactile and gustatory. Hallucinations develop due to 3 main pathophysiologicalmechanisms: psychophysiological, psychobiochemical (neurohormone dependent) and psychodynamic. Etiology of these perceptions…