Cognitive biases are increasingly recognised as integral to the formation and persistence of delusions in schizophrenia. These systematic distortions in thinking affect how individuals gather, ...

As many people know, a bout of déjà vu can be a disorienting experience, like a momentary hiccup that distorts reality. Perhaps a friend says something and you suddenly feel like you’ve had this exact ...

Bullshitting is a very different category to me than delusion and I think needs to be dealt with differently. I can imagine real delusion existing here, but an overwhelming percentage of people saying ...

"Our study suggests that identification of neuropsychiatric symptoms, such as depression, anxiety, agitation or delusions, could be crucial to distinguish MCI patients with risk of faster cognitive ...

In the popular folktale, Chicken Little, a chicken finds himself afraid of the sky falling when an acorn falls on his head. He warns the other creatures who greet him with skepticism and or join him ...

Delusions of grandeur are a symptom of mental health conditions like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. People with this symptom may believe they have supernatural, religious, or God-like powers.

Like all variants of cognitive behavioral therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy for psychosis (CBTp) is a short-term, structured form of psychotherapy based on the idea that the way someone thinks ...

Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion and Daniel Dennett’s Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon argue that religion is a delusion or, at best, a misfiring of basic cognitive systems ...

What I'm saying, from my experience, is that it appears that physical brain damage can also give rise to delusions that are firmly and even fanatically held. One question might be whether mechanical ...