Capgras Syndrome Case Study

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During the night of February 20, 2002, a young man named Mark Schulter was involved in an almost fatal crash in his truck on a lonely country road near a town in Nebraska. Mark is taken to a hospital where is only other sibling, Karen, leaves work to be by his side during recovery. When Mark finally awakes from his temporary coma, he believes that his sister is an imposter, this is caused by Capgras Syndrome in which a person does not recognize relatives. Karen, the sister discovers a note in Mark’s room that was said to be placed there by the person who have saved Mark from his crash, but no one is one-hundred percent sure who is was. Karen, who is mad about how Mark cannot recognize her, seeks the help of a noted neurologist, named Gerald

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