Capgras syndrome--out of sight, out of mind?
OBJECTIVE
Recent theoretical approaches emphasize a disorder of face processing in the pathogenesis of the Capgras syndrome. We report a patient with the Capgras syndrome developing in the physical absence of the person who is believed to be replaced and thus a limited role for a disorder of face processing.


METHODS
The clinical phenomenology of a case of the Capgras syndrome is explored.


RESULTS
A disorder of face processing might not be a sufficient explanation of the course of the disorder in this patient.


CONCLUSIONS
Face processing accounts, of the Capgras delusion, have to be supplemented by additional assumptions.
Dietl
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Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53114 Bonn, Germany. t.dietl@web.de
Herr
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Brunner
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Friess
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D014150:Antipsychotic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001921:Brain / Q000187:drug effects / Q000503:physiopathology; D002194:Capgras Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy*; D005260:Female; D006220:Haloperidol / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008875:Middle Aged
D014150:Antipsychotic Agents; D006220:Haloperidol