title: Frégoli syndrome accompanied with prosopagnosia in a woman with a 40-year history of schizophrenia.
abstract: A 68-year-old woman with schizophrenia after a cerebrovascular accident resulting in right medial temporal and occipital damage developed Frégoli syndrome. Neuropsychological testing revealed that she had impairment in facial recognition compatible with prosopagnosia. The Frégoli syndrome disappeared in three month when, remarkably, her prosopagnosia also disappeared. Our findings are consistent with the hypothesis that combination of hyperactivations of temporo-limbic connection and frontal dysfunction may account for the development of Frégoli syndrome.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Komagino Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. yamori@rg7.so-net.ne.jp
authors.forename: Yasushi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Moriyama
authors.forename: Taro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Muramatsu
authors.forename: Motoichiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: Masaru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mimura
authors.forename: Tomoko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Akiyama
authors.forename: Haruo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kashima
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003702:Delusions / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D020238:Prosopagnosia / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013577:Syndrome; D013997:Time Factors