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Tahir Rahman MD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis
Verified email at wustl.edu
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[PDF][PDF] Anders Breivik: Extreme beliefs mistaken for psychosis

T Rahman, PJ Resnick, B Harry - Journal of the American Academy of …, 2016 - Citeseer
The case of Anders Breivik, who committed mass murder in Norway in 2011, stirred
controversy among forensic mental health experts. His bizarrely composed compendium and …

Antipsychotic treatment in breast cancer patients

T Rahman, CV Clevenger… - American Journal of …, 2014 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Special consideration is required when prescribing antipsychotic drugs for patients with an
existing diagnosis of breast cancer. The package inserts of all approved antipsychotics …

[HTML][HTML] Extreme overvalued beliefs: How violent extremist beliefs become “normalized”

T Rahman - Behavioral Sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Extreme overvalued beliefs (EOB) are rigidly held, non-deusional beliefs that are the motive
behind most acts of terrorism and mass shootings. EOBs are differentiated from delusions …

[PDF][PDF] Extreme overvalued beliefs

T Rahman, SM Hartz, W Xiong, JR Meloy… - J Am Acad Psychiatry …, 2020 - academia.edu
An extreme overvalued belief is shared by others in a person’s cultural, religious, or subcultural
group. The belief is often relished, amplified, and defended by the possessor of the belief …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of energy intensity, energy productivity and natural resource rents on carbon emissions in Morocco

…, Y Khan, M Khan, S Naz, T Hassan, C Wu, T Rahman - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Moroccan government has always advocated reducing energy intensity so as to reach
the target of the sustainable development. The current study presents the connection …

Risk of breast cancer with prolactin elevating antipsychotic drugs: an observational study of US women (ages 18–64 years)

T Rahman, JM Sahrmann, MA Olsen… - Journal of clinical …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Purpose/Background: Antipsychotic drugs are well established to alter circulating prolactin
levels by blocking dopamine D2 receptors in the pituitary. Prolactin activates many genes …

Cognitive‐affective drivers of fixation in threat assessment

JR Meloy, T Rahman - Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Pathological fixation – preoccupation with a person or a cause that is accompanied by
deterioration in social and occupational functioning – has been found to precede most cases of …

Schizophrenia: an overview

T Rahman, J Lauriello - Focus, 2016 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Few changes were made to the diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia in DSM-5. Schizophrenia
is a chronic mental illness with positive symptoms (delusions, hallucinations, disorganized …

[PDF][PDF] Extreme overvalued belief and the legacy of Carl Wernicke

T Rahman, JR Meloy, R Bauer - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law, 2019 - drreidmeloy.com
Individuals with extreme overvalued beliefs often carry out abhorrent and inexplicable acts
of violence. They hold odd and bizarre beliefs that are shared by others in their culture or …

DSM-5 cultural and personality assessment of extreme overvalued beliefs

T Rahman, L Zheng, JR Meloy - Aggression and Violent Behavior, 2021 - Elsevier
Lone actor targeted violence is often the result of pathological fixations driven by extreme
overvalued beliefs. An extreme overvalued belief is shared by others in a person's cultural, …