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Université Côte d'Azur, INRAE, CNRS, UMR ISA, Nice, France.
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3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
Department of Neurology, St. Olav's Hospital, University Hospital of Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway.
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3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
Department of Neurology, St. Olav's Hospital, University Hospital of Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway.
Publications dans "Troubles factices" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
Publications dans "Troubles factices" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Departments of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences; Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 760 Westwood Plaza, Semel 48-241, Los Angeles, CA, 90024-1759, USA. bbursch@mednet.ucla.edu.
Publications dans "Troubles factices" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, CA, USA.
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2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Plant Biosecurity, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Management for Plant Quarantine Pests, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Beijing, P. R. China.
Publications dans "Troubles factices" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Crop Protection Division, ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, India.
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Affiliations :
Crop Protection Division, ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, India.
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Affiliations :
Crop Protection Division, ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, India.
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Affiliations :
Crop Protection Division, ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, India.
Publications dans "Troubles factices" :
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Affiliations :
Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China.
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United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beneficial Insects Introduction Research Unit, Newark, DE, USA.
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Affiliations :
Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China.
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1 publication dans cette catégorie
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Department of Dermatology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL. Maria.Colavincenzo@nm.org.
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Department of Psychological Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK c.bass1@btinternet.com.
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Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital, Oxford Centre for Enablement, Oxford, UK.
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Department of Ophthalmology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon.
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In palliative care, many end-of-life (EOL) patients are physically dependent on their caregivers. These patients may also have difficulty expressing their needs because of their underlying disease and...
Factitious hypoglycemia is a factitious disorder according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), referring to intentionally covertly induced hypoglycemia, with potentia...
Factitious disorder on self is a psychiatric disorder in which individuals fabricate or induce signs or symptoms of a disease. Factitious anaphylaxis, with symptoms suggestive of a life-threatening al...
Dermatitis artefacta (factitious dermatitis) is a dermatological disease of different types; it could appear on various parts of the body. It is associated with severe difficulties, such as psychic di...
Factitious disorder imposed on self (FDIS) is a mental disorder characterized by conscious manipulative behavior from patients with no clearly identifiable external objective. It affects subjects with...
Factitious disorder is characterized by a pattern of abnormal behavior in which patients deliberately produce, falsify, or exaggerate physical and/or psychological symptoms that have no, or little, or...
A literature search was performed using the electronic databases PubMed, EMBASE and Cochrane Library following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guideline...
Depression was found to be highly prevalent in factitious disorder, affecting around 30% of the samples. Risk factors for depression in factitious disorder included having suffered from childhood and ...
The treatment of factitious disorder is challenging and requires a multidisciplinary team approach. Given the high levels of depression in patients with factitious disorder, we recommend to always scr...
In reality, the lines between factitious disorder, functional disorder, and malingering are quite blurred. In factitious disorder and malingering, patients consciously and deliberately create false me...
Prolonged exposition to supraphysiological doses of exogenous glucocorticoid eventually results in iatrogenic Cushing's syndrome, whose intensity depends on the dose and duration of the treatment and ...
Factitious thyrotoxicosis (FTT) is a common form of thyroid hormone (TH) abuse involving voluntary but concealed intake of an excessive amount of TH. In most cases, FTT seeks to improve body compositi...
Diagnosing factitious disorder (FD) poses significant medical challenges; delays impact patient care and costs. Cultural factors of each country also affect illness and behavior disorders. This study ...
This cross-sectional study reviewed patient data from three psychiatric hospitals in Tehran from 2017 to 2022, confirming FD diagnoses by psychiatry faculty. Inclusion criteria were the diagnosis of F...
A total of 17 cases with the diagnosis of factitious disorder were investigated in 5 years (4.315 per 10,000 patients). The highest frequency age range was between 20-30 years, and most of them were m...
This study showed that FD is underdiagnosed, and more attention is needed to the signs of this diagnosis in the assessments. Also, the clinical features showed that treatment should account for comorb...