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·February 23, 2026·8 min read

Chatbots Can Worsen Delusions and Mania

A digital helping hand or a dangerous mirror? New research reveals how AI chatbots can consolidate delusions and worsen symptoms for those with severe mental illness.

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·April 12, 2025·9 min read

Delusions Often Appear Before Hallucinations in Early Psychosis

A new study has found that delusions typically emerge before hallucinations in individuals at high risk for psychosis, overturning a long-standing belief that hallucinations drive delusional thinking. By analyzing symptom progression across three large cohorts, researchers consistently observed that delusions were the earliest symptom, reappearing even before hallucinations during relapses.

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·March 11, 2025·5 min read

Social Media Linked to Increased Risk of Delusion-Based Disorders

New research indicates a strong link between high social media use and psychiatric disorders involving delusions, such as narcissism and body dysmorphia. Conditions like narcissistic personality disorder, anorexia, and body dysmorphic disorder thrive on social platforms, allowing users to build and maintain distorted self-perceptions without real-world checks.

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·December 30, 2020·5 min read

Is Belief in God a Delusion?

A new study examines the relationship, and differences, between religion and delusion.

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·November 9, 2020·4 min read

Study Finds Evidence of Neurobiological Mechanism for Hallucinations and Delusions

Hallucinations and delusions share a common neurobiological mechanism while simultaneously depending on symptom-specific pathways.

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·March 21, 2019·4 min read

Delusions may stem from sticky beliefs

Delusional thinking is associated with slower alterations in personal belief, a new study reports. People who suffer more delusions also tend to seek out more information prior to making a guess, contradiction previous findings that those with psychosis are more prone to 'jump to conclusions'.

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·June 28, 2018·3 min read

People Undergoing Voluntary and Involuntary ECT Treatment Have Similar Outcomes

Researchers report both those who received voluntary and involuntary electroconvulsive therapy reported their symptoms were much improved following treatment.

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·November 1, 2017·3 min read

People with Psychotic-Like Experiences Spend Less Time in Healthy Brain States

According to researchers, healthy people who experience subtle symptoms of psychotic disorders, such as hallucinations, have altered brain dynamics.

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·May 12, 2017·5 min read

Neuroscience Explanations For ‘Alien Abduction’ Aren’t So Out of This World

Researchers provide more real, scientific explanations as to why some people are convinced they have experienced alien encounters.

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·March 29, 2017·5 min read

Vulnerability to Psychosis: How to Detect it

Researchers have identified an early vulnerability biomarker for psychosis.

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·February 16, 2017·4 min read

B Vitamins May Reduce Schizophrenia Symptoms

According to a new study, high doses of certain B vitamins could help to reduce some of the symptoms of schizophrenia when coupled with antipsychotic treatments.