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Overvalued idea

MedGen UID:
535454
•Concept ID:
C0233668
•
Finding
Synonym: Overvalued ideas
SNOMED CT: Overvalued idea (81215003)
 
HPO: HP:5200402

Definition

A solitary belief that may be held by others in the society that is maintained by the person to an abnormal and morbid degree and overtly drives behaviors that are considered unhealthy, intrusive, or illegal. This includes fads and cults that the person may adhere to and practice to a morbid degree. The content may vary and ranges from religion, health, romance, or politics. [from HPO]

Term Hierarchy

CClinical test,  RResearch test,  OOMIM,  GGeneReviews,  VClinVar  
  • CROGVOvervalued idea

Professional guidelines

PubMed

Idiopathic environmental intolerance: Part 2: A causation analysis applying Bradford Hill's criteria to the psychogenic theory.
Staudenmayer H, Binkley KE, Leznoff A, Phillips S
Toxicol Rev 2003;22(4):247-61. doi: 10.2165/00139709-200322040-00006. PMID: 15189047

Recent clinical studies

Etiology

Inferential confusion in obsessive-compulsive disorder: the inferential confusion questionnaire.
Aardema F, O'Connor KP, Emmelkamp PM, Marchand A, Todorov C
Behav Res Ther 2005 Mar;43(3):293-308. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2004.02.003. PMID: 15680927
Delusion, the overvalued idea and religious beliefs: a comparative analysis of their characteristics.
Jones E, Watson JP
Br J Psychiatry 1997 Apr;170:381-6. doi: 10.1192/bjp.170.4.381. PMID: 9246259
Interpretation: selected fact or overvalued idea?
Britton R, Steiner J
Int J Psychoanal 1994 Dec;75 ( Pt 5-6):1069-78. PMID: 7713646
Partnership in transsexualism. Part II. The nature of the partnership.
Huxley PJ, Kenna JC, Brandon SB
Arch Sex Behav 1981 Apr;10(2):143-60. doi: 10.1007/BF01542175. PMID: 7247724

Diagnosis

Extreme Overvalued Belief and the Legacy of Carl Wernicke.
Rahman T, Meloy JR, Bauer R
J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 2019 Jun;47(2):180-187. Epub 2019 May 13 doi: 10.29158/JAAPL.003847-19. PMID: 31085556
Anders Breivik: Extreme Beliefs Mistaken for Psychosis.
Rahman T, Resnick PJ, Harry B
J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 2016 Mar;44(1):28-35. PMID: 26944741
Idiopathic environmental intolerance: Part 2: A causation analysis applying Bradford Hill's criteria to the psychogenic theory.
Staudenmayer H, Binkley KE, Leznoff A, Phillips S
Toxicol Rev 2003;22(4):247-61. doi: 10.2165/00139709-200322040-00006. PMID: 15189047
Idiopathic environmental intolerances (IEI): myth and reality.
Staudenmayer H
Toxicol Lett 2001 Mar 31;120(1-3):333-42. doi: 10.1016/s0378-4274(01)00265-x. PMID: 11323192
Delusion, the overvalued idea and religious beliefs: a comparative analysis of their characteristics.
Jones E, Watson JP
Br J Psychiatry 1997 Apr;170:381-6. doi: 10.1192/bjp.170.4.381. PMID: 9246259

Prognosis

Pseudocyesis preceding psychosis.
Mortimer A, Banbery J
Br J Psychiatry 1988 Apr;152:562-5. doi: 10.1192/bjp.152.4.562. PMID: 3167413
Disorders with overvalued ideas.
McKenna PJ
Br J Psychiatry 1984 Dec;145:579-85. doi: 10.1192/bjp.145.6.579. PMID: 6391600

Clinical prediction guides

Inferential confusion in obsessive-compulsive disorder: the inferential confusion questionnaire.
Aardema F, O'Connor KP, Emmelkamp PM, Marchand A, Todorov C
Behav Res Ther 2005 Mar;43(3):293-308. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2004.02.003. PMID: 15680927
Delusion, the overvalued idea and religious beliefs: a comparative analysis of their characteristics.
Jones E, Watson JP
Br J Psychiatry 1997 Apr;170:381-6. doi: 10.1192/bjp.170.4.381. PMID: 9246259

Recent systematic reviews

Remorse in psychotic violent offenders: An overvalued idea?
Dandawate A, Kalebic N, Padfield N, Craissati J, Taylor PJ
Behav Sci Law 2019 Sep;37(5):579-588. Epub 2019 Nov 3 doi: 10.1002/bsl.2428. PMID: 31679173

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