This report offers an account of the historical construction of Cotard's syndrome showing that by délire des négations the French author meant a subtype of depressive illness. Subsequent debate led first to the belief that it was just a collection of symptoms associated with agitated depression (anxious melancholia) or general paralysis, and later to the view that it might after all constitute ...

Time intrigued humankind for thousands of years. From the beginning of its consciousness, mankind has some ―idea‖, ―feeling‖ or ―vision‖ of Time. Something ever happens around a man. The Sun rises and falls to/from the horizon. The Moon moves through the stars. The rivers run to the oceans, and a falling leafs followed a river streams to disappear forever; and even human lives follow the flow o...

Previous research suggests that measures of dysphoria relate to positive schizophrenic symptoms. These relationships have rarely been studied within the dimensionality of psychopathology framework. The present study examined the relationship between 3 distinct aspects of dysphoria (depression and state and trait anxiety) and delusion and hallucination proneness in a nonclinical sample of young ...

A delusion is usually decribed as an erroneous belief of the falseness of which its possessor cannot be persuaded of by reasoning nor by the evidence of his own senses, and which is contrary to the general belief of persons of his own race, age, standing and training. A person who believes that he can raise men from the dead or one who states that he is a canary or another who believes that he ...

The initial cause of Cotard delusion is pervasive dyshomeostasis (dysregulation basic bodily function).This explanation draws on interoceptive active inference account self-representation. In this framework, the self an hierarchical predictive model made by brain to facilitate homeostatic regulation. I provide alternative two factor accounts that treat depersonalisation experience as first in g...