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SHR Neuro Cancer Cardio Lipid Metab Microb
Wolf, F; Scherr, M; Scherthöffer, D; Bäuml, J; Förstl, H.
Trichoma (Plica polonica) - a contemporary case with a historical disease
Neuropsychiatr. 2008; 22(2): 124-126.
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- Scherr Martin
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- Abstract:
- We describe a 62-year-old patient with a chronic delusional disorder who presented with severely matted hair ("plica polonica"). Until the late 19th century such dreadlocks were considered as cause, consequence and treatment of mental disease. The historical development of "plica polonica" is briefly reviewed as an example of early and once popular psychiatric disease concepts.
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- Antipsychotic Agents - therapeutic use
- Female -
- Fluspirilene - therapeutic use
- Germany -
- Hair -
- Hair Diseases - drug therapy Hair Diseases - history Hair Diseases - psychology
- History, 19th Century -
- Humans -
- Hygiene - history
- Mental Disorders - history Mental Disorders - psychology
- Middle Aged -
- Schizophrenia, Paranoid - drug therapy Schizophrenia, Paranoid - history Schizophrenia, Paranoid - psychology
- Social Isolation -
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- plica polonica
- dreadlocks
- trichoma
- delusional disorder
- late paraphrenia