Capgras syndrome due to neurologic disease

Also known as: Capgras delusion

Delusion that a familiar person has been replaced by an impostor.

Medical specialty: Neurology
Subspecialty: Neurology / Neuropsychiatry
Sex & age distribution: Male: affected; Female: affected, more commonly women; Children: rare
Gene(s) involved: None recorded

Etiology & mechanism

Lesions of right frontal and temporal lobes, DLB, Alzheimer disease.

Gene(s) involved (0)

No gene recorded.

Symptoms & signs (1)

delusion that a relative is an impostor

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