0 feeling extremely nervous and worried because you believe that other people do not like you or are trying to harm you -- 偏執的，多疑的
Exactly how important abnormalities in personality functioning are in the aetiology and onset of late-life paranoid psychoses is unclear.
Undoubtedly, many of those attacks were groundless, paranoid and motivated by fear.
They are prone to brief losses of reality, transient hallucinatory, or illusory phenomena and paranoid states.
Not surprisingly therefore, paranoid personality traits and social isolation are frequent premorbid characteristics of elderly patients who develop late paraphrenia.
These patients also had a better outcome in terms both of institutionalization and ten-year survival compared with paranoid patients.
A polymorphism in the dopamine beta-hydroxylase gene is associated with ' paranoid ideation ' in patients with major depression.
Paranoid delusions and auditory hallucinations were the predominant features, with formal thought disorder, catatonic features and negative symptoms being uncommon.
It is hardly surprising that people who have been given a diagnosis of dementia often become suspicious and, on occasion, even paranoid.
