{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.delusional-disorder","code":"thing-q721073","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q721073/","name":"delusional disorder","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"research-draft","version":"0.2.0-wave.4","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"","entryKind":"","plane":"","domain":["INF.KNW"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"A mental disorder characterised by one or more fixed false beliefs, delusions, held despite contrary evidence, without the prominent hallucinations or disorganisation of schizophrenia and often with otherwise preserved functioning; forms the registry aliases name include delusional parasitosis, the belief of being infested by parasites, clinical zoanthropy, the belief of being an animal, mirrored-self and other delusional misidentification syndromes, and koro, a culture-related syndrome of belief that the genitals are retracting, while a schizophrenia-like or schizophreniform label is a related but different diagnosis. 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