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>The Syndrome of Capgras
The Syndrome of Capgras
G. N. Christodoulou
G. N. Christodoulou*
Athens University, Eginition Hospital, Vasilissis Sofias 74, Athens, Greece
In eleven patients with the syndrome of Capgras, the clinical data and the results of electroencephalographic, echoencephalographic, air-encephalographic, psychological and brain-scanning investigations are presented and discussed. All patients were psychotic: six were schizophrenic, four were depressive and one suffered from an organic psychosis. A paranoid element was marked in all cases.
The present evidence supports the view that organic factors are important in the pathogenesis of Capgras' syndrome.
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 130 , Issue 6 , June 1977 , pp. 556 - 564
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