Can a chatbot make someone lose touch with reality? That’s the question I posed to psychiatrist John Luo of the University of California, Irvine, on a recent episode of my podcast "Relating to AI," ...

AI co-creates collective false beliefs and distributed delusions. The study analyzes how AI narrative tools misrepresent ...

A growing body of cases suggests chatbots may be reinforcing romantic and conspiratorial delusions, with experts warning that ...

"I couldn't leave my house for months... people were messaging me all over my social media, like, 'Are you safe? Are your ...

Psychiatrists are seeing a new kind of patient in the waiting room, people who arrive clutching chat logs instead of diaries and insisting that an artificial companion is sending them secret messages.

Schizophrenia is a serious and often misunderstood mental illness that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves. It involves a combination of symptoms, including hallucinations, delusions, ...

People experiencing delusions during an episode of psychosis may be "living out" a deeply held emotion, according to new research that provides a "radically different perspective" on one of the most ...

For decades, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BD) were treated as distinct and unrelated psychiatric disorders. Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder characterized by altered thinking and ...

From calling yourself "delulu" to saying you're in a "delusionship," the word delusional has become a prominent part of cultural slang. But I'm not sure it should be. With these terms being so ...

The haunting melodies that bring tears to our eyes and the disorganized thoughts that characterize psychosis might seem worlds apart. Yet emerging research suggests these disparate experiences may ...