Английская Википедия:Hyperreligiosity

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Шаблон:Infobox medical condition (new) Hyperreligiosity is a psychiatric disturbance in which a person experiences intense religious beliefs or episodes that interfere with normal functioning. Hyperreligiosity generally includes abnormal beliefs and a focus on religious content or even atheistic content,[1] which interferes with work and social functioning. Hyperreligiosity may occur in a variety of disorders including epilepsy,[2][3] psychotic disorders and frontotemporal lobar degeneration.[4] Hyperreligiosity is a symptom of Geschwind syndrome, which is associated with temporal lobe epilepsy.[5]

Signs and symptoms

Hyperreligiosity is characterized by an increased tendency to report supernatural or mystical experiences, spiritual delusions, rigid legalistic thoughts,Шаблон:Citation needed and extravagant expression of piety.[6][7] Hyperreligiosity may also include religious hallucinations. Hyperreligiosity can also be expressed as intense atheistic beliefs.[1]

Pathophysiology and cause

Hyperreligiosity may be associated with epilepsy – in particular temporal lobe epilepsy involving complex partial seizuresmania,[8] frontotemporal lobar degeneration, Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis,[9] hallucinogen related psychosis[10] and psychotic disorder. In persons with epilepsy episodic hyperreligosity may occur during seizures[11] or postictally, but is usually a chronic personality feature that occurs interictally.[3] Hyperreligiosity was associated in one small study with decreased right hippocampal volume.[6] Increased activity in the left temporal regions has been associated with hyperreligiosity in psychotic disorders.[12] Pharmacological evidence points towards dysfunction in the ventral dopaminergic pathway.[13]

Treatment

Epilepsy related cases may respond to antiepileptics.[14]

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