Introduction. Capgras syndrome is characterised by the belief that a significant other has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor. These patients have no difficulties with …
HD Ellis, AW Young, AH Quayle… - Proceedings of the …, 1997 - royalsocietypublishing.org
People experiencing the Capgras delusion claim that others, usually those quite close emotionally, have been replaced by near–identical impostors. Ellis and Young suggested in …
AW Young, I Reid, S Wright… - The British Journal of …, 1993 - cambridge.org
Investigations of two cases of the Capgras delusion found that both patients showed face- processing impairments encompassing identification of familiar faces, recognition of …
HD Ellis, MB Lewis - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2001 - cell.com
Capgras delusion is the belief that significant others have been replaced by impostors, robots or aliens. Although it usually occurs within a psychiatric illness, it can also be the …
D Bourget, L Whitehurst - The Canadian Journal of …, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: Acts of violence have been frequently reported in cases of Capgras syndrome (CS), a misidentification syndrome characterized by the delusional belief that imposters …
NMJ Edelstyn, F Oyebode - International Journal of Geriatric …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
In this article the epidemiology, aetiology, neuroanatomy and neuropsychology of the Capgras syndrome (CS) are reviewed in detail. CS is characterized by the delusional belief …
Capgras' Syndrome, the delusion of doubles, is a rare delusional phenomenon in which a person believes that identical doubles have replaced significant people in his life and/or that …
In this viewpoint, we discuss the new evidence on covert face recognition in prosopagnosia presented by Bobes et al.(2003, this issue) and by Sperber and Spinnler (2003, this issue) …
KA Josephs - Archives of neurology, 2007 - jamanetwork.com
Background Capgras syndrome is characterized by a delusional belief that a person has been replaced by an imposter. It has been described in psychiatric and neurological …