A Lowlands Perspective on Exaggeration and Feigned Symptoms by B. Dandachi-Fitzgerald

“…When patients overreport symptoms: More than just malingering. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28, 321–326.…”
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Being A Chronic Patient in the Process of Probation: A Case Report by Özge Gülmez, Ramazan Akcan, Ali Rıza Tümer

“…In this context, there might be malingering convicts that need to be examined in detail for differential diagnosis. …”
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Role of Electrophysiologal Studies for Detection of Simulation and Aggravation in Ophthalmology by Mermeklieva E.

“…To present the importance of the electrophysiological studies for detection of malingering and aggravation in ophthalmology.…”
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Severe depression when everything else is dismissed. A case by L. Soldado Rodriguez, S.S. Sánchez Rus, A. Alvarado Dafonte

“…In this case, clearly secondary gain was founded, therefore diagnose was malingering. Disclosure No significant relationships. …”
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Predicting speech discrimination scores from pure-tone thresholds—A machine learning-based approach using data from 12,697 subjects by Hantai Kim, JaeYeon Park, Yun-Hoon Choung, Jeong Hun Jang, JeongGil Ko

“…Results obtained from this study provides implications and potential feasibility in providing a practically-applicable screening tool for identifying patient-intended malingering in hearing loss-related tests.…”
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Psychogenic Movement Disorders by Chakravarty Ambar, Gosh Bhaskar

“…Psychogenic movement Disorders (PMD) may result from somatoform disorders, factitious disorders, malingering, depression anxiety disorders and less frequently, histrionic personality disorders. …”
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Rapidly reversible visual loss in posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome: An ophthalmologist's enigma by Virender Sachdeva, Ravi Garg, Avinash Pathengay, Anjali Chandrasekharan, Ramesh Kekunnaya

“…Such patients' may initially be misdiagnosed as Malingering. Ophthalmologists may be the first physicians to be confronted by such patients. …”
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Männlichkeit, Krieg und Militarismus in Großbritannien 1914-1939 by Joanna Bourke

“…Some men attempted to avoid the risks of combat by ,shirking' or malingering: others accepted to play their allotted role and, in consequence, tens of thousands were severely mutilated. …”
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The psychological effects of forced family separation on asylum-seeking children and parents at the US-Mexico border: A qualitative analysis of medico-legal documents. by Kathryn Hampton, Elsa Raker, Hajar Habbach, Linda Camaj Deda, Michele Heisler, Ranit Mishori

“….; 2) they reported signs and symptoms of trauma following reunification; 3) almost all individuals met criteria for DSM diagnoses, even after reunification; 4) evaluating clinicians consistently concluded that mental health treatment was indicated for both parents and children; and 5) signs of malingering were absent in all cases.…”
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Dizziness: Smell the Smoke! by Sharwari Bhutada, Santosh Venketraman Kondekar, Surbhi Rathi, Rajesh Kunchelikar, Tejaswini Munde

“…Dizziness in a child is often mistaken for giddiness, vertigo or syncope and at times it is considered equivalent to malingering or foolishness. We hereby report a case of a child whose dizziness stayed neglected and unevaluated for three years. …”
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The "trauma pitch": How stigma emerges for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans seeking disability compensation. by Katinka Hooyer

“…Findings based on veterans' narratives suggest that the disability claims process, requiring multiple repetitions of personal trauma, coupled with perceptions of institutional stigmas of malingering, created bureaugenic effects: a worsening of symptoms caused by bureaucratic protocols intended to help veterans. …”
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Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive… by M. Wise

“…But sometimes this plays out differently there are those who may fabricate symptoms to avoid punishment or for reward: malingering. There are those who believe they have a disease but the distress is disproportionate to any possible recognised component; somatic symptom disorder. …”
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The Good, the Bad, and the Clever: Faking Ability as a Socio-Emotional Ability? by Mattis Geiger, Romy Bärwaldt, Oliver Wilhelm

“…To test this theory, we developed new instruments to measure the ability to fake bad (malingering) and administered them jointly with established tests of faking good ability in a general sample of <i>n</i> = 134. …”
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Measurement of chemosensory function by Richard L. Doty

“…In other cases, patients are malingering. Olfactory testing is critical for not only establishing the validity and degree of the chemosensory dysfunction, but for helping patients place their dysfunction into perspective relative to the function of their peer group. …”
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When should a university student be allowed academic accommodations for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder? A position statement for a unified procedure for use in Brazil by Bernardo Oppermann Lisboa, Arthur Caye, Angelo Masson Hernandes, Antonio Geraldo da Silva, Carlos Roberto M. Rieder, Edmund Sonuga-Barke, Iane Kestelman, Jason M. Nelson, Marisa Irene Siqueira Castanho, Rochele Paz Fonseca, Stephen P. Hinshaw, Luis Augusto Rohde

“…We reviewed the literature to acquire information on what documents are commonly required by disability services before accommodations for ADHD are provided (including detection of malingering) and scrutinized the eligibility criteria of leading universities worldwide. …”
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Assessment of Human Visual Acuity Using Visual Evoked Potential: A Review by Xiaowei Zheng, Guanghua Xu, Kai Zhang, Renghao Liang, Wenqiang Yan, Peiyuan Tian, Yaguang Jia, Sicong Zhang, Chenghang Du

“…Visual evoked potential (VEP) has been used as an alternative method to assess visual acuity objectively, especially in non-verbal infants and adults with low intellectual abilities or malingering. By sweeping the spatial frequency of visual stimuli and recording the corresponding VEP, VEP acuity can be defined by analyzing electroencephalography (EEG) signals. …”
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Study of incidence of varied etiology of first episode Pediatric Seizures and its correlation with EEG and Neuroimaging by Sandeep Reddy Ch1 , Harish G V2 , Shilpa Reddy Tummala3

“…Materials and Methods: It is prospective study carried out from January 2017 to January2018. 74 children aged between six month to fifteen years with first seizure episode admitted in Pediatric Department of Prathima Institute of Medical Sciences were enrolled and detailed history and investigations including MRI,CT and EEG were done .Children with Neonatal seizures,Previous episodes of seizures, stroke in young, poisonings,malingering,pseudo seizures were excluded from the study. …”
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Neurological signs described at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro: connecting the past to the future by Sofia Abreu MERMELSTEIN, Victor Evangelista Rodrigues PEREIRA, João Paulo da Costa GONÇALVES, Flavio Henrique de Rezende COSTA

“…Results We report on the unpublished pillow sign in progressive supranuclear palsy; the Brazilian sandal sign in functional or malingering patients; the dermographism sign in acute meningitis; the reverse forearm rolling sign in functional palsies; the cycling maneuver in parkinsonian syndromes and the Sá Cavalcanti sign, a Babinski equivalent. …”
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Psychiatric Misdiagnosis in Frontotemporal Dementia by A. Yay Pençe, İ. Ekmekçi Ertek, B. Coşar

“…Psychiatric misdiagnoses were depression(n=6), psychosis(n=5), bipolar affective disorder (n=5), conversion disorder(n=4), and malingering(n=1). As we looked at the first symptoms of the patients, it was revealed that 9 of 12 patients presented with depressive symptoms or at least experienced a short depressive period at the beginning of their behavioral changes. …”
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Mental health, ethnicity and the UK armed forces: historical lessons for research and policy by Jones, E, Palmer, L, Bhui, K

“…Consequently, low morale and breakdown were interpreted as malingering to avoid combat. Indian troops received lower levels of psychiatric care than provided for British soldiers delivered with limited cultural understanding. …”