Reduplicatve Paramnesia is a rare disorder in which the person affected thinks that a familiar place is duplicated, both to coexist.
There are no gender, race, or ethnic factors involved.
Reduplicative Paramnesia is usually associated with Fregoli’s delusion: a disorder in which a person thinks belief that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance and Capgras delusion: another disorder in which a familiar person has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor.
Some symptoms include confabulation, speech disorder, anosognosia , and out-of-body experiences.
Confabulation is when a person has fabricated, distorted or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world.
Out-of-body experiences is when a person …show more content…
Causes:
Reduplicative Paramnesia is classified as a delusional misidentification syndrome. There are no definite known causes but the most widely-accepted theory is that a person can contract it through a brain injury. It is believed that the disorder is caused by a disruption to the parts of the brain that deal with conscious memory and familiarity, which are the frontal lobes and right hemisphere. It is suggested that damage to these areas could lead to the condition if the damage in an event is severe enough, such as a bad car accident, during memory formation and retrieval.
Although severe brain trauma is most likely cause in most cases, it is also possible for other mental illnesses to cause a person to fall into an amnesic state where the possibility of Reduplicative Paramnesia can come …show more content…
She had been questioning herself about this strange condition, and tried to justify everything by stating that the government didn’t have money to give her so they gave her an identical house. She is clearly affected with some sort of mental illness here because she tries to justify her crazy claim and I think she is affected with reduplicative paramnesia. The reason why I diagnosed this old lady as having reduplicative paramnesia is because one month after the meningioma was removed, she appeared to not have neurologic signs: she could talk about “her two-houses story,” and she was aware that there were not two houses. This strongly suggests that the brain injury was why she thought that she had duplicated homes. More evidence to back up my claim was that there were neuropsychological examination that showed that she was not memory impaired and her neurological condition was unchanged on follow-up visits. This old lady is basically a miracle because she was able to fight through reduplicative paramnesia with her very slim
There are no gender, race, or ethnic factors involved.
Reduplicative Paramnesia is usually associated with Fregoli’s delusion: a disorder in which a person thinks belief that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance and Capgras delusion: another disorder in which a familiar person has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor.
Some symptoms include confabulation, speech disorder, anosognosia , and out-of-body experiences.
Confabulation is when a person has fabricated, distorted or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world.
Out-of-body experiences is when a person …show more content…
Causes:
Reduplicative Paramnesia is classified as a delusional misidentification syndrome. There are no definite known causes but the most widely-accepted theory is that a person can contract it through a brain injury. It is believed that the disorder is caused by a disruption to the parts of the brain that deal with conscious memory and familiarity, which are the frontal lobes and right hemisphere. It is suggested that damage to these areas could lead to the condition if the damage in an event is severe enough, such as a bad car accident, during memory formation and retrieval.
Although severe brain trauma is most likely cause in most cases, it is also possible for other mental illnesses to cause a person to fall into an amnesic state where the possibility of Reduplicative Paramnesia can come …show more content…
She had been questioning herself about this strange condition, and tried to justify everything by stating that the government didn’t have money to give her so they gave her an identical house. She is clearly affected with some sort of mental illness here because she tries to justify her crazy claim and I think she is affected with reduplicative paramnesia. The reason why I diagnosed this old lady as having reduplicative paramnesia is because one month after the meningioma was removed, she appeared to not have neurologic signs: she could talk about “her two-houses story,” and she was aware that there were not two houses. This strongly suggests that the brain injury was why she thought that she had duplicated homes. More evidence to back up my claim was that there were neuropsychological examination that showed that she was not memory impaired and her neurological condition was unchanged on follow-up visits. This old lady is basically a miracle because she was able to fight through reduplicative paramnesia with her very slim