Capgras delusion for animals and inanimate objects in Parkinson’s Disease: a case report
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Capgras delusion for animals and inanimate objects in Parkinson’s Disease: a case report
BACKGROUND Capgras delusion is a delusional misidentification syndrome, in which the patient is convinced that someone that is well known to them, usually a close relative, has been replaced by an impostor or double. Although it has been frequently described in psychotic syndromes, including paranoid schizophrenia, over a third of the documented cases of Capgras delusion are observed in patient...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Psychiatry
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1471-244X
DOI: 10.1186/s12888-015-0460-7