ReviewReproductive biology and endocrinology : RB&E2013
Endocrinology and physiology of pseudocyesis.
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- Pseudopregnancy: when the body mimics pregnancy without a fetus.International journal of surgery (London, England) · 2025Article
- Delusion of pregnancy: Case series.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2024Article
- The role of sociocultural factors in rare medical conditions: The first case report of pseudocyesis in an Ethiopian woman with major depressive disorder.Clinical case reports · 2024Article
- Pregnancy Denial: Toward a New Understanding of the Underlying Mechanisms.Current psychiatry reports · 2023Review
- A rare case report of pseudo-pregnancy in a menopausal female.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2023Article
- No Little Feet: Managing Pseudocyesis in a Homeless, Acutely Manic Patient with Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar Type.Case reports in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Delusion of Pregnancy in Down Syndrome: Two Case Reports.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- Prolactin and human weight disturbances: A puzzling and neglected association.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2019Review
- Biopsychosocial view to pseudocyesis: A narrative review.International journal of reproductive biomedicine · 2017Review
- Emotionally induced galactorrhoea in a non-lactating female--"Pseudo- Lactation"?BMC endocrine disorders · 2014Article
- Pseudocyesis, delusional pregnancy, and psychosis: The birth of a delusion.World journal of clinical cases · 2014Review
- Delusion of pregnancy: Conception in brain.Industrial psychiatry journalArticle
- Delusion of pregnancy: a systematic review of 84 cases in the literature.Indian journal of psychological medicineReview
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Abstract
This literature review on pseudocyesis or false pregnancy aims to find epidemiological, psychiatric/psychologic, gynecological and endocrine traits associated with this condition in order to propose neuroendocrine/endocrine mechanisms leading to the emergence of pseudocyetic traits. Ten women from 5 selected studies were analyzed after applying stringent criteria to discriminate between cases of true pseudocyesis (pseudocyesis vera) versus delusional, simulated or erroneous pseudocyesis. The analysis of the reviewed studies evidenced that pseudocyesis shares many endocrine traits with both polycystic ovarian syndrome and major depressive disorder, although the endocrine traits are more akin to polycystic ovarian syndrome than to major depressive disorder. Data support the notion that pseudocyetic women may have increased sympathetic nervous system activity, dysfunction of central nervous system catecholaminergic pathways and decreased steroid feedback inhibition of gonadotropin-releasing hormone. Although other neuroendocrine/endocrine pathways may be involved, the neuroendocrine/endocrine mechanisms proposed in this review may lead to the development of pseudocyetic traits including hypomenorrhea or amenorrhea, galactorrhea, diurnal and/or nocturnal hyperprolactinemia, abdominal distension and apparent fetal movements and labor pains at the expected date of delivery.
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