Mayer's Symptom

Mayer is a psychopathological symptom related to schizophrenic dementia. Delusions of persecution often accompany delusions of grandeur, and the patient says that he is being persecuted by agents of foreign states or special persons sent by the government.

The syndrome debuts in adolescence or early young adulthood and is reduced during the depressive-paranoid phase of the endogenous cycloid. Mayer's symptom rarely occurs on its own, more often