Capgras syndrome

They've been replaced by imposters - or you have capgras syndrome.

Capgras syndrome isn't the same thing as face blindness, or prosopagnosia.

Some sufferers of Capgras syndrome claim that the duplicate is a robot.

Capgras syndrome is what's known as a delusional misidentification.

In Capgras syndrome, the patient feels that a person familiar to him, usually a family member has been replaced by an imposter.

Capgras syndrome used to be considered very rare, but medical professionals are beginning to think that perhaps it isn't so rare after all.

There is also the phenomenon of Capgras syndrome, in which a person may feel that a close relative is actually an impostor.

Capgras syndrome is the delusional belief that a friend, family member, etc., has been replaced by a twin impostor.

How Capgras Syndrome Works You get home from a long day, and all you want to do is see your family.

People with Capgras syndrome think that their spouse, family members or even their pets have been replaced with doubles.

Capgras Syndrome and several other related disorders are referred to as delusional misidentification syndrome.

His absence was due to his contracting an obscure psychological disorder, Capgras Syndrome.

Briefly discusses déjà vu and Capgras syndrome.

Of more rarity is the coexistence of both Fregoli and Capgras syndromes.

Today the Capgras syndrome is understood as a neurological disorder, in which the delusion primarily results from organic brain lesions or degeneration.

Capgras syndrome has also been linked to reduplicative paramnesia, another delusional misidentification syndrome.

Capgras syndrome is a relatively rare condition in which the sufferer believes that people (or, in some cases, things) have been replaced with duplicates.

People with Capgras syndrome can perceive faces, and recognize that they look familiar, but they don't connect that face with the actual feeling of familiarity.

Although he largely recovers, he has cognitive impairments, including capgras syndrome, the suspicion that his sister has been replaced by an impostor.

Others like Merrin and Silberfarb (1976) have also proposed links between the Capgras syndrome and deficits in aspects of memory.

The syndrome is sometimes comorbid with Capgras delusion, leading to it to be named "subjective Capgras syndrome" in some instances.

Capgras syndrome is reminiscent of the plot of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," directed by Don Siegel, 1956.

Weber recognized Mark's condition as a rare case of Capgras syndrome - the delusion that people in one's life are doubles or impostors - and eagerly investigates.

Reduplicative paramnesia is understood to affect the frontal lobe and thus it is believed that Capgras syndrome is also associated with the frontal lobe.

Even if the damage is not directly to the frontal lobe, an interruption of signals between other lobes and the frontal lobe could result in Capgras syndrome.