Attitudes towards schizophrenia and associated factors among community members in Hossana town: a mixed method study by Ayano Shanko, Lonsako Abute, Temesgen Tamirat

“…Results Of the study participants, 194 (46.5%) had positive attitudes toward people with schizophrenia. Eccentric behavior and wandering were the most commonly mentioned manifestation. …”
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Why Do Patients Leave against Medical Advice? Reasons, Consequences, Prevention, and Interventions by Asseel Albayati, Steven Douedi, Abbas Alshami, Mohammad A. Hossain, Shuvendu Sen, Vito Buccellato, Anamarrie Cutroneo, Jason Beelitz, Arif Asif

“…Is this an erratic eccentric behavior of the patient, or a gap in the quality of care provided by the hospital? …”
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Hamsun’s “mal du siècle” by Tom Conner

“…Specifically, I will examine the resonance of the Romantic malaise known in France as “le mal du siècle” and how it might inform a reading of Knut Hamsun’s novel Pan (1894) and shed light on the more than eccentric behavior of its main character, Lieutenant Glahn. …”
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Perception and beliefs about mental illness among adults in Karfi village, northern Nigeria by Kabir Mohammed, Iliyasu Zubair, Abubakar Isa S, Aliyu Muktar H

“…</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The most common symptoms proffered by respondents as manifestations of mental illness included aggression/destructiveness (22.0%), loquaciousness (21.2%), eccentric behavior (16.1%) and wandering (13.3%). Drug misuse including alcohol, cannabis, and other street drugs was identified in 34.3% of the responses as a major cause of mental illness, followed by divine wrath/ God's will (19%), and magic/spirit possession (18.0%). …”
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Homicidal behavior in schizotypical disorder. A case presentation by Abelardo Román Concepción Serradet, Victoria de la Caridad Ribot Reyes, Noraima Rodríguez Gómez

“…<span style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><strong>Introduction: </strong>Schizotypical disorder appears at very early ages as a general pattern of social and interpersonal deficit; eccentric behavior; reduced capacity to maintain personal relations; and cognitive distortions, which are psychologically inexplicable. …”
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Evaluate personality disorders symptoms in different individuals by Naima Akhlaq, Urooj Asghar, Tanzeela Gul, Syeda Yusra Ali, Noma Shah

“…They are characterized into three types: those characterized by odd/eccentric behavior, those characterized by suspenseful/erratic behavior, and those characterized by anxious/inhibited behavior. …”
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Schizotypy and mindfulness: Magical thinking without suspiciousness characterizes mindfulness meditators by Elena Antonova, Kavitha Amaratunga, Bernice Wright, Ulrich Ettinger, Veena Kumari

“…All participants completed the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (Raine, 1991), a self-report scale containing 9 subscales (ideas of reference, excessive social anxiety, magical thinking, unusual perceptual experiences, odd/eccentric behavior, no close friends, odd speech, constricted affect, suspiciousness). …”
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Schizotypal traits in a large sample of high-school and university students from Tunisia: correlates and measurement invariance of the arabic schizotypal personality questionnaire... by Feten Fekih-Romdhane, Abir Hakiri, Manel Stambouli, Wissal Cherif, Rami Away, Amani Amri, Majda Cheour, Souheil Hallit

“…Except for “Odd or eccentric behavior”, all schizotypy features were significantly higher among female students compared to males. …”
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