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Abstract
Chronic mental disorders in which there has been an insidious development of a permanent and unshakeable delusional system (persecutory delusions or delusions of jealousy), accompanied by preservation of clear and orderly thinking. Emotional responses and behavior are consistent with the delusional state.
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- Paranoia
- Paranoid Psychoses
- Psychoses, Paranoid
- Disorder, Paranoid
- Disorders, Paranoid
- Paranoias
- Paranoid Disorder
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.
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81; was PARANOIA 1963-80
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Paranoid Disorders. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D010259. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D010259
- Paranoid Disorders. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia
- Paranoid Disorders. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1229994