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Grandiose Type Delusional Disorder

MedGen UID:
452760
•Concept ID:
C0855262
•
Mental or Behavioral Dysfunction

Definition

A subtype of delusional disorder characterized by the central delusional theme that the individual has special worth, power, knowledge, or a special relationship to a famous person or deity. [from NCI]

Term Hierarchy

CClinical test,  RResearch test,  OOMIM,  GGeneReviews,  VClinVar  
  • CROGVGrandiose Type Delusional Disorder

Recent clinical studies

Etiology

De Clérambault Syndrome, Othello Syndrome, Folie à Deux and Variants.
Delgado MG, Bogousslavsky J
Front Neurol Neurosci 2018;42:44-50. Epub 2017 Nov 17 doi: 10.1159/000475685. PMID: 29151090
Clinical presentation and early care relationships in 'poor-me' and 'bad-me' paranoia.
Morris E, Milner P, Trower P, Peters E
Br J Clin Psychol 2011 Jun;50(2):211-6. Epub 2011 Mar 2 doi: 10.1348/014466510X525498. PMID: 21545452
A descriptive case-register study of delusional disorder.
de Portugal E, González N, Haro JM, Autonell J, Cervilla JA
Eur Psychiatry 2008 Mar;23(2):125-33. Epub 2007 Dec 21 doi: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2007.10.001. PMID: 18082379
Subtypes of mania determined by grade of membership analysis.
Cassidy F, Pieper CF, Carroll BJ
Neuropsychopharmacology 2001 Sep;25(3):373-83. doi: 10.1016/S0893-133X(01)00223-8. PMID: 11522465
Delusional disorder: retrospective analysis of 86 Chinese outpatients.
Hsiao MC, Liu CY, Yang YY, Yeh EK
Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 1999 Dec;53(6):673-6. doi: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.1999.00624.x. PMID: 10687749

Diagnosis

Ways of understanding of religious delusions associated with a change of identity on the example of identification with Jesus Christ.
Dyga K, Stupak R
Psychiatr Pol 2018 Feb 28;52(1):69-80. doi: 10.12740/PP/64378. PMID: 29704415
De Clérambault Syndrome, Othello Syndrome, Folie à Deux and Variants.
Delgado MG, Bogousslavsky J
Front Neurol Neurosci 2018;42:44-50. Epub 2017 Nov 17 doi: 10.1159/000475685. PMID: 29151090
A descriptive case-register study of delusional disorder.
de Portugal E, González N, Haro JM, Autonell J, Cervilla JA
Eur Psychiatry 2008 Mar;23(2):125-33. Epub 2007 Dec 21 doi: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2007.10.001. PMID: 18082379
Delusional disorder: retrospective analysis of 86 Chinese outpatients.
Hsiao MC, Liu CY, Yang YY, Yeh EK
Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 1999 Dec;53(6):673-6. doi: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.1999.00624.x. PMID: 10687749
Delusional disorder: the recognition and management of paranoia.
Manschreck TC
J Clin Psychiatry 1996;57 Suppl 3:32-8; discussion 49. PMID: 8626368

Therapy

Subtypes of mania determined by grade of membership analysis.
Cassidy F, Pieper CF, Carroll BJ
Neuropsychopharmacology 2001 Sep;25(3):373-83. doi: 10.1016/S0893-133X(01)00223-8. PMID: 11522465
Delusional disorder: retrospective analysis of 86 Chinese outpatients.
Hsiao MC, Liu CY, Yang YY, Yeh EK
Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 1999 Dec;53(6):673-6. doi: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.1999.00624.x. PMID: 10687749
Delusional disorder: the recognition and management of paranoia.
Manschreck TC
J Clin Psychiatry 1996;57 Suppl 3:32-8; discussion 49. PMID: 8626368

Prognosis

Clinical presentation and early care relationships in 'poor-me' and 'bad-me' paranoia.
Morris E, Milner P, Trower P, Peters E
Br J Clin Psychol 2011 Jun;50(2):211-6. Epub 2011 Mar 2 doi: 10.1348/014466510X525498. PMID: 21545452
Delusional disorder: the recognition and management of paranoia.
Manschreck TC
J Clin Psychiatry 1996;57 Suppl 3:32-8; discussion 49. PMID: 8626368

Clinical prediction guides

Clinical presentation and early care relationships in 'poor-me' and 'bad-me' paranoia.
Morris E, Milner P, Trower P, Peters E
Br J Clin Psychol 2011 Jun;50(2):211-6. Epub 2011 Mar 2 doi: 10.1348/014466510X525498. PMID: 21545452
A descriptive case-register study of delusional disorder.
de Portugal E, González N, Haro JM, Autonell J, Cervilla JA
Eur Psychiatry 2008 Mar;23(2):125-33. Epub 2007 Dec 21 doi: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2007.10.001. PMID: 18082379
Neuropsychiatric and neuropsychological correlates of delusions in Alzheimer's disease.
Migliorelli R, Petracca G, Tesón A, Sabe L, Leiguarda R, Starkstein SE
Psychol Med 1995 May;25(3):505-13. doi: 10.1017/s0033291700033420. PMID: 7480431

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