Structured Summary
Abstract
A chronic form of schizophrenia characterized primarily by the presence of persecutory or grandiose delusions, often associated with hallucination.
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7 entry terms
- Schizophrenia, Paranoid
- Paranoid Schizophrenias
- Schizophrenias, Paranoid
- Delusional Disorder
- Delusional Disorders
- Disorder, Delusional
- Disorders, Delusional
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31 allowable subheadings
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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Indexing Annotation
/psychol permitted but consider SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY (IM) if paranoid aspect is less relevant (NIM)
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Previous Indexing
- Paranoid Disorders (1966-1972)
- Schizophrenia (1966-1972)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Paranoid Schizophrenia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D012563. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D012563
- Paranoid Schizophrenia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoid_schizophrenia
- Paranoid Schizophrenia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2606101