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Because we're more advanced than the rest of medicine?

So I googled to see what we had and found a page titled "Eponymous Psychiatric Syndromes" but it was blank so I used the way back machine to get it: Eponymous Psychiatric Syndromes

It lists only 4:
Othello Syndrome
Patients hold the delusional belief that their partner is cheating on them. Affects males more than females. They may be threatening towards their partner and stalk or have them followed.

Cotard's Syndrome
In this delusional disorder, patients believe that parts of their own body are dead or decaying. Typically associated with severe depression and suicidal tendency.

Capgras Syndrome
Patients hold the delusional beleif that a friend or relative (often their partner) has been replaced by an exact double.

De Clerambault's syndrome
Classically effects women. Patients believe that another individual (often a celebrity) is deeply in love with them, and is incapable of living without them.
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The Fregoli delusion, or the delusion of doubles, is a rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise

from wikipedia
 
Kleine–Levin syndrome, KLS, or Sleeping Beauty syndrome is a neurological disorder characterized by recurring periods of excessive amounts of sleeping and eating

from wikipedia

(on the border of psychiatry and neuro)
 
Munchausen's syndrome
Meadow's syndrome
Briquet's syndrome
Ganser syndrome
Tourette syndrome
Othello syndrome
DeClerembault syndrome
Ekbom's syndrome
Capgras syndrome
Fregoli syndrome
Wernicke-Korsakoff encephalopathy
Korsakoff psychosis
Marchiafava-bignami disease
Biswanger's disease
Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease
Kluver-Bucy syndrome
Charles Bonnet syndrome
Anton's syndrome
Alzheimer's disease
Lewy Body Dementia
Dementia of Parkinson's disease
Pick's disease
Todd syndrome
Diogenes syndrome
Couvade syndrome


so the DSM does have some eponymous neuropsychiatric syndromes, but for the most part, the DSM for purposes of clarity has expunged eponyms, in addition to the richness of descriptive psychopathology. Thankfully the DSM-5 is so worthless that no one will pay much attention to it and there may be revival in the european tradition in psychopathology that goes beyond the checklist criteria of the DSM.
 
genetics is never going to have a practicable effect in the classification of psychiatric disorders. this is partly because of the large number of SNPs that appear to be involved, their lack of specificity to particular forms of psychopathology and the relatively small effect sizes. i'm not a geneticist but most of the seasoned psychiatric geneticists i have spoken to have suggested that genetics is not going to inform our system of classifying or diagnosing psychiatric disorders. and if we had a genetically informed psychiatric classification where would that leave those disorders that were primarily not genetic in origin (which could potentially be the majority).
 
but the DSM is not used for billing in the majority of cases. CMS and most insurance companies use ICD-9-CM codes for billing. Granted the ICD-9-CM is an American, bastardized version of the the european ICD which is influenced by the DSM it is still not the DSM.
 
splik said:
genetics is never going to have a practicable effect in the classification of psychiatric disorders. this is partly because of the large number of SNPs that appear to be involved, their lack of specificity to particular forms of psychopathology and the relatively small effect sizes. i'm not a geneticist but most of the seasoned psychiatric geneticists i have spoken to have suggested that genetics is not going to inform our system of classifying or diagnosing psychiatric disorders. and if we had a genetically informed psychiatric classification where would that leave those disorders that were primarily not genetic in origin (which could potentially be the majority).
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Interesting, I agree that we unlikely to find simple relationships between genes and disorders that could be used to inform classification. But genetics could certainly contribute to the development of intermediate phenotypes (a concept favored by Michael Rutter for conditions in child psychiatry), which, rather than basing classification based purely on genetics, try and find useful clinical intermediates that are at the interesection of genetic, neuroimaging and clinical findings.
 
splik said:
Munchausen's syndrome
Meadow's syndrome
Briquet's syndrome
Ganser syndrome
Tourette syndrome
Othello syndrome
DeClerembault syndrome
Ekbom's syndrome
Capgras syndrome
Fregoli syndrome
Wernicke-Korsakoff encephalopathy
Korsakoff psychosis
Marchiafava-bignami disease
Biswanger's disease
Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease
Kluver-Bucy syndrome
Charles Bonnet syndrome
Anton's syndrome
Alzheimer's disease
Lewy Body Dementia
Dementia of Parkinson's disease
Pick's disease
Todd syndrome
Diogenes syndrome
Couvade syndrome


so the DSM does have some eponymous neuropsychiatric syndromes, but for the most part, the DSM for purposes of clarity has expunged eponyms, in addition to the richness of descriptive psychopathology. Thankfully the DSM-5 is so worthless that no one will pay much attention to it and there may be revival in the european tradition in psychopathology that goes beyond the checklist criteria of the DSM.
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There's a movement in the sleep field to bring back Ekbom's name to the disease (restless legs)
 
michaelrack said:
The Fregoli delusion, or the delusion of doubles, is a rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise

from wikipedia
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I saw one of these patients in the ED.
 
Do all those delusional disorders not fall under some broader category? Or is getting their own name just something that happened and stuck?
 
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