Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Concept Videos

Positive Symptoms Schizophrenia: Hallucinations and Delusions01:26

Positive Symptoms Schizophrenia: Hallucinations and Delusions

Schizophrenia is a complex psychiatric disorder characterized by a range of symptoms that significantly impact cognition, behavior, and emotional regulation. Among these, the positive symptoms stand out as they involve the addition or exaggeration of normal mental functions, deviating markedly from typical behavior and perception. Hallucinations and delusions are prominent positive symptoms, each profoundly affecting the individual's experience of reality.
Hallucinations
Hallucinations in...
Personality Disorders: Paranoid and Schizoid01:22

Personality Disorders: Paranoid and Schizoid

Personality disorders represent enduring cognition, affect, and behavior patterns that significantly deviate from societal norms. These maladaptive traits often lead to difficulties in various domains, including interpersonal relationships, occupational settings, and overall psychological well-being. Paranoid personality disorder and schizoid personality disorder are two distinct conditions marked by odd or eccentric behavior.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Paranoid personality disorder is...
Toxoplasmosis01:28

Toxoplasmosis

Toxoplasmosis, a zoonotic disease caused by the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii, poses significant public health challenges globally due to its high seroprevalence and varied clinical manifestations. As an obligate intracellular parasite, T. gondii can infect all warm-blooded vertebrates, but felids are its only definitive hosts, shedding unsporulated oocysts into the environment. Humans typically acquire the infection through ingestion of tissue cysts in undercooked meat or oocysts from...
Psychosis: Goals of Pharmacotherapy01:26

Psychosis: Goals of Pharmacotherapy

Antipsychotic drugs are a crucial treatment method for acute and chronic psychoses, bipolar illness, and behavioral disorders. The selection of these drugs depends on several factors, including the state of the disease, clinical judgment, possible drug interactions, and the patient's sensitivity to adverse effects. In immediate scenarios, such as delirium and dementia, short-term treatment with low doses of high-potency typical or atypical agents can effectively manage symptom exacerbation. For...
Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia: Hallucinations and Delusions01:30

Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia: Hallucinations and Delusions

Schizophrenia is a complex mental health disorder that can manifest with various positive symptoms, including thought, movement, and behavior disorders. These symptoms significantly disrupt cognitive and motor functions, leading to profound effects on an individual's ability to engage with the world.
Thought Disorders
Disorganized and unusual thought processes mark thought disorders in schizophrenia. One key feature is disorganized speech, where an individual's conversation includes loosely...
Psychosis and Antipsychotic Drugs: Overview01:28

Psychosis and Antipsychotic Drugs: Overview

The term "psychosis" refers to a spectrum of mental disorders characterized by abnormal thoughts, perceptions, and behaviors. It can manifest as mood disorders, dementia, delirium with psychotic features, substance-induced psychosis with psychotic features, brief psychotic disorder, delusional disorder, schizoaffective disorder, and schizophrenia. Among all these disorders, schizophrenia is the most common psychotic disorder, affecting 1% of the worldwide population. Psychotic symptoms in all...

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Unravelling the temporal evolution of Parkinson's disease mortality in Spanish autonomous communities (1999-2021).

Neurologia·2026
Same author

Oral Roflumilast for Long-term Management of Behçet Spectrum Disorders: A Multicenter Observational Analysis.

Actas dermo-sifiliograficas·2025
Same author

Understanding stroke mortality trends in Spain: A comprehensive age-period-cohort and joinpoint analysis.

Neurologia·2025
Same author

Multiple sclerosis mortality trends in Spain from 1981 to 2020.

Neurologia·2025
Same author

Executive summary on the optimization of the multidisciplinary and integrated approach to polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis in Madrid region.

Revista clinica espanola·2023
Same author

Defying the Gibbs Phase Rule: Evidence for an Entropy-Driven Quintuple Point in Colloid-Polymer Mixtures.

Physical review letters·2020

Related Experiment Videos

Delusional parasitosis: 9-year experience from a psychodermatology unit.

E Pérez Zafrilla1, Á González García1, A Grau Echevarría1

  • 1Department of Dermatology, Hospital General Universitario de Valencia, Spain.

Actas Dermo-Sifiliograficas
|June 24, 2026
PubMed
Summary

Delusional parasitosis (DP) is an underdiagnosed psychiatric disorder with skin symptoms. This study details DP

Keywords:
Delusional parasitosisEkbom syndromeantipsychoticaripiprazoleectoparasiticendoparasiticfolie à deuxparasitic delusionpimozidepruritus

Related Experiment Videos

Area of Science:

  • Psychodermatology
  • Clinical Psychiatry
  • Dermatology

Background:

  • Delusional parasitosis (DP), also known as Ekbom syndrome, is a rare psychiatric condition with a dermatological presentation.
  • It is frequently underdiagnosed due to limited clinician awareness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To characterize the clinical presentation of delusional parasitosis in a tertiary care setting.
  • To identify epidemiological and treatment outcome data for DP patients.

Main Methods:

  • A retrospective observational study was conducted.
  • Data were collected from 25 patients diagnosed with DP between June 2015 and June 2024.
  • Included data: clinical signs, demographics, comorbidities, and treatment outcomes.

Main Results:

  • The study identified 25 DP patients (75% female, mean age 55).
  • Shared psychotic disorder and positive urine toxicology were noted in 32% of cases.
  • The "matchbox sign" was observed in 56% of patients. Antipsychotics, particularly pimozide, were the primary treatment.
  • 43% of treated patients showed improvement, with 21.5% achieving complete remission. 44% were lost to follow-up.

Conclusions:

  • Delusional parasitosis requires consideration in routine dermatological practice.
  • Challenges in managing DP include poor patient adherence and the need for multidisciplinary care.