Background. The pathophysiology of auditory hallucinations and delusions of control has
been elucidated using functional imaging. Despite their clinical importance, there have been …

Persecutory (paranoid) delusions are a frequently observed clinical phenomenon. In recent
years, an increasing volume of research has attempted to explain these types of beliefs in …

Introduction. Abnormal attributions and deficits in theory of mind (ToM) skills have been
implicated in paranoid delusions. Bentall and Kinderman (1998) have proposed that ToM …

Neuroimaging studies have demonstrated associations between delusions in psychotic
disorders and abnormalities of brain areas involved in social cognition, including medial …

Paranoid delusions have recently become the focus of empirical research. In this article, we
review studies of the psychological mechanisms that might be involved in paranoid thinking …

Introduction. Neurocognitive accounts of delusion have traditionally highlighted perceptual
misrepresentation, as the primary trigger in addtion to other cognitive dificits that maintain …

Abstract See McKay and Furl (doi: 10.1093/aww323) for a scientific commentary on this
article. Focal brain injury can sometimes lead to bizarre symptoms, such as the delusion that …

Background. People with persecutory delusions regard ambiguous data in the social
domain as self-relevant and selectively attend to threatening information. This study aimed …

Various factors contribute to the development and maintenance of delusions in the context of
schizophrenic psychoses. Studies with functional and structural MRI were able to detect …

Background. The nature of delusions remains unclear despite their interest to researchers
and importance in psychopathology. Here we present a review of the contributions from …