title: Paranoid states.
abstract: Paranoid states is a term that covers a number of different disorders in which persecutory and grandiose ideas and delusions constitute a significant part of the symptoms. The most important are those conditions that are now generally accepted as being members of the group of schizophrenias. These symptoms become more important in conditions of social isolation and sensory deprivation. They appear in some organic cerebral conditions and may colour any breakdown that develops in some types of personality.
mesh_terms: D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D010551:Personality; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology