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Capgras Delusion
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A delusion of doubles- that oneself or a friend has been replaced by an exact clone, who is an impostor.
Cause: psychosis, head injury, vitamin B12 deficiency, pituitary or right occipitotemporal lesion, multiple sclerosis. |
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Cotard's syndrome
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Nihilistic delusions.
A rare disorder in which people hold a delusional belief that they are dead (either figuratively or literally), do not exist, are putrefying, or have lost their blood or internal organs. In rare instances, it can include delusions of immortality. Cause: psychoses such as schizophrenia. It can arise in the context of neurological or mental illness and is particularly associated with depression and derealization. Associated with parietal lobe lesions |
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De Clerambaudt's Syndrome
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Erotomania
The patient is persistently deluded that a celebrity, a politician or someone of higher social status is in love with them. Cause: Associated with schizophrenia, mania, left frontal lobe lesion and low IQ. |
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Ekbom's Syndrome
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Delusional Parasitosis
Victims acquire a strong delusional belief that they are infested with parasites, whereas in reality no such parasites are present. Very often the imaginary parasites are reported as being "bugs" or insects crawling on or under the skin; in these cases the experience of the sensation known as formication may provide the basis for this belief. Primary- the delusions comprise the entire disease entity, somatic type delusional disorder Secondary Functional- when the delusions are associated with a psychiatric condition such as schizophrenia or clinical depression Secondary Organic- hypothyroidism, cancer, cerebrovascular disease, tuberculosis, neurological disorders, vitamin B12 deficiency, and diabetes mellitus |
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Fregoli delusion
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the delusion of doubles- is a rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise. Often of a paranoid nature, with the delusional person believing themselves persecuted by the person they believe is in disguise.
Cause: Injury to the right frontal and left temporo-parietal areas |
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Ganser Syndrome
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Disorientation
Pseudodementia Approximate answering It is characterized by nonsensical or wrong answers to questions or doing things incorrectly, other dissociative symptoms such as fugue, amnesia or conversion disorder, often with visual pseudohallucinations and a decreased state of consciousness. Cause: temporoparietal lesion, head injury. The syndrome may occur in persons with other mental disorders such as schizophrenia, depressive disorders, toxic states, paresis, alcohol use disorders and factitious disorders. |
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Othello Syndrome
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Morbid jealousy
A person holds a strong delusional belief that their spouse or sexual partner is being unfaithful without having any, very little, or insignificant proof to back up their claim. Associations- alcohol, schizophrenia, depression, right frontal lobe problems |
