Have you ever had or experienced the capgras syndrome? I posted a link in here. And do you think I have it?
http://www.psychnet-uk.com/dsm_iv/capgras_syndrome.htm
When I look in a mirror, it feels like the person looking back at me is not me, but a stranger that looks like me to an extent.
Do you think I have it?
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just something similar, i don't think you psychotic (
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is there a CURE for Capgras Syndrome???
is there a CURE for Capgras Syndrome???
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Capgras Syndrome, named for its discoverer, the French psychiatrist Jean Marie Joseph Capgras. The person's primary delusion is that a close relative or friend has been replaced by an impostor, an exact double, despite recognition of familiarity in appearance and behavior. The patient may also see himself as his own double. Also know as Delusional misidentification, illusion of doubles, illusion of negative doubles, misidentification syndrome, nonrecognition syndrome, phantom double syndrome, subjective doubles syndrome.
Delusions are false beliefs, sometimes with bizarre content, that are held with strong conviction even in the presence of contrary evidence. For persons suffering from Capgras Syndrome they typically believe they exist in a world of impersonators. This feeling in a delusional world of doubles can be so alarming that it drives the Capgras sufferer to psychotic behavior. The syndrome typically has the following characteristics:
The person is convinced that one or several persons known by the sufferer have been replaced by a double, an identical looking imposter.
The patient sees true and double persons.
It can may extend to animals and objects.
The person is conscious of the abnormality of these perceptions. There is no hallucination.
The double is usually a key figure for the person at the time of onset of symptoms. If married, always the husband or wife accordingly.
Associated Features:
Cerebral lesions caused by head injury, which are often located in the posterior area of the right hemisphere, where face recognition is performed.
Schizophrenic diseased conditions (paranoid-hallucinatory schizophrenia), but also in affective and organic-psychic disturbances.
Affects both sexes, but prevalent in women.
Differential Diagnosis:
Some disorders have similar symptoms. The clinician, therefore, in his diagnostic attempt, has to differentiate against the following disorders which need to be ruled out to establish a precise diagnosis.
Schizophrenia
Alzheimer's Disease
Huntington's Disease
Multiple Sclerosis
Traumatic Brain Injury
Substance-Induced Delusional Disorders - hallucinogens and alcohol
Mood Disorders with Delusions - manic and depressive types
Dementia
Cause:
It has been reported that the Capgras Syndrome and related substitution delusions, that 35% have an organic etiology. Some researchers believe that Capgras' syndrome can be blamed on a relatively simple failure of normal recognition processes following brain damage from a stroke, drug overdose, or some other cause. This disorder can also follow after accidents that cause damage to the right side of the brain. Therefore, controversies exist about the etiology of Capgras Syndrome, some researchers explain it with organic factors, others with psychodynamic factors, or a combination of the two,
Treatment:
Individual therapy may be best suited to treat the persons delusions. Persistence is needed in establishing a therapeutic empathy without validating the person’s delusional system or overtly confronting the system. Cognitive techniques that include reality testing and reframing can be used. Antipsychotics and other drugs have been used with some success. (
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ex-SNL cast member Tony Rosato is in jail;they say he has"Capgras syndrome"- what do u know about that?
From the Toronto Star:
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/213298
from the article above:
Brodsky explains that the Crown's expert prison psychiatrist, Dr. Duncan Scott, has told him and the Crown "that Tony Rosato is certifiable." Scott's diagnosis, says Brodsky, is a mental illness called Capgras syndrome. Named for its discoverer, French psychiatrist Jean Marie Joseph Capgras, the syndrome is characterized by the delusion that a person or people have been replaced by doubles or impostors. The rare condition is most commonly associated with schizophrenia, but according to Dr. Graham Glancy, a forensic psychiatrist with Metro West Detention Centre and Maplehurst Correctional Complex, it can also be caused by metabolic diseases, delirium, brain injury or drugs such as cocaine.
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It sounds like you answered you own question! (
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I would like some information on Capgras syndrome. I have been unabel to find accurate information on this.?
My father was recently diagnosed with this and I would like to find out how we may help him and my mom.
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The Capgras delusion or Capgras' syndrome is a rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that an acquaintance, usually a close family member or spouse, has been replaced by an identical looking imposter. The condition in some cases is a direct result of brain lesion. Capgras delusion is classed as a delusional misidentification syndrome, a class of delusional beliefs that involves the misidentification of people, places or objects. Additionally, Capgras delusion is termed a monothematic delusion because it has been shown to occur on its own outside of any other delusions.
Although Capgras is commonly called a syndrome, it may occur as part of, or alongside, various other disorders and conditions, such as schizophrenia and neurological illness. Therefore, some researchers have argued that it should be considered as a symptom, rather than a syndrome or classification in its own right
For eg take this case
This case is taken from a 1991 report by Passer and Warnock[4]:
Mrs. D, a 74-year old married housewife, recently discharged from a local hospital after her first psychiatric admission, presented to our facility for a second opinion. At the time of her admission earlier in the year, she had received the diagnosis of atypical psychosis because of her belief that her husband had been replaced by another unrelated man. She refused to sleep with the imposter, locked her bedroom and door at night, asked her son for a gun, and finally fought with the police when attempts were made to hospitalize her. At times she believed her husband was her long deceased father. She easily recognized other family members and would misidentify her husband only.
i can give you some references also
^ Forstl, H.; Almeida, O.P.; Owen, A.M.; Burns, A.; & Howard, R. (1991). Psychiatric, neurological and medical aspects of misidentification syndromes: a review of 260 cases. Psychological Medicine 21 (4) 905–910.
^ Capgras, J. & Reboul-Lachaux, J. (1923). Illusion des sosies dans un delire systematise chronique. Bulletin de la Societe Clinique de Medicine Mentale 2 6–16.
^ Ellis, H.D.; Whitley, J.; & Luaute, J.P. (1994). Delusional misidentification. The three original papers on the Capgras, Frégoli and intermetamorphosis delusions (Classic Text No. 17). History of Psychiatry 5 (17) 117–146.
^ a b Passer, K.M. & Warnock, J.K. (1991). Pimozide in the treatment of Capgras' syndrome. A case report. Psychosomatics 32 (4) 446–448.
^ Ellis, H.D. & Lewis, M.B. (2001). Capgras delusion: a window on face recognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 5 (4) 149–156.
^ Ramachandran, V.S. (1998). Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind. New York: Harper Collins Ltd. ISBN 0-688-17217-2
Hope your father gets fine.
I will pray for your family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (
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how common is 'capgras syndrome'?
This condition isn't so much a "syndrome" as it is a symptom of other classifyable mental illnesses. It is very rare (so rare I could not find any definite numbers.) (
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What is the name of the syndrome that the person may appear to have facial characteristics of down's syndrome?
I previously watched a documentary about sufferers of a syndrome whose facial features appeared to be down's syndrome but it wasn't down's syndrome. The grow to be quite large adults and have special needs. Does anyone know the name of this condition?
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Klinefelter syndrome (
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Are there different types of Down syndrome and what areas of the body does Down syndrome affect? ?
Also, are there any significant statistics related to Down syndrome? Has Down syndrome received any recent attention from the media? Are there any famous people that have Down syndrome.
Answer as many of the above questions as possible.
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There are three types of Down syndrome, garden variety Trisomy 21, mosaicism and translocation.
Read more at:
Welcoming Babies with Down Syndrome (English, Spanish, French)
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art32534.asp
There is a slide show that also incorporates videos of the featured 'More Alike than Different' cast at the National Down Syndrome Congress website:
http://www.ndsccenter.org/morealike/flash/
And great information at the National Down Syndrome Society website:
Down Syndrome Fact Sheet
http://www.ndss.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=35&Itemid=57
You might also enjoy
Margaret's Guide to Down Syndrome
http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2007/05/12/margarets-guide-to-down-syndrome/
For bios of actors with Down syndrome, see:
Down Syndrome and the Acting Gene
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art34198.asp
and
DS in Arts and Media
http://www.dsiam.org/
and
Michael Johnson
http://www.users.psln.com/sharing/Michael/mainMichael.html
and
Sujeet Desai
http://www.sujeet.com
Down Syndrome Links at the Family Village website
http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/lib_down.htm
Check out this recent New York Times article:
The DNA Age: Prenatal Test Puts Down Syndrome in Hard Focus
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/us/09down.html
Have fun with your research!
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What is so bad about having down syndrome?
I think people are a lot colder than they want you to believe. Too many pregnancies prediagnosed with down syndrome are terminated! Doctors tell people that their kid will be like some animal and people believe them. I've met my share of people with down syndrome, and they all seem pretty human to me. On top of that, they were all decent folks, which is a lot more than I can say for the general population. And how does knowing that unborn children are purged because of down syndrome affect those who were born and have down syndrome?
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WOW!! I'm so glad that there are other people who's lives have been touched as mine has. See when I was 28 I gave birth to twin girls and one of them was born with Mosaic down syndrome. Of course, I didn't know much about it til now....and yes I was shocked. They are 14 months old now, and such a blessing as well as my two boys. My daughter is about 4 months behind in her milestones, but she is always so happy! Out of all my kids she is the easiest to handle.
It's always nice to have other people, who see that they are more alike, then different from the rest of us. (
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What is the syndrome called when you cannot feel physical pain?
I remember watching a show a long time ago, and this one little girl was born with a syndrome where she could never feel pain. If she fell on the floor and cut her knee, she wouldn't cry, whereas most children would.
What is this called? Is it a syndrome? Is it a medical condition? I just want to know what it's called, and I can do the research on it.
It is for a story I am writing but I don't entirely know what it is.
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It's called "congenital insensitivity to pain" (
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What syndrome would someone have that the doctor would need to put them on bloodthinners?
My sister is 18 and just moved out here from MN to go to school. She has had many medical problems and been to several doctors. She recently told me that the doctor said there was something wrong with her blood and she needs to be put on blood thinners for the rest of her life. What syndrome could this be?
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There are several, but the first that comes to mind is Factor-V (five). (
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