Psychiatry · Psychiatry / Delusional misidentification syndromes
Capgras syndrome
also: Capgras delusion; Illusion of doubles
Delusion that a familiar person has been replaced by an identical impostor.
- Specialty
- Psychiatry
- Subspecialty
- Psychiatry / Delusional misidentification syndromes
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected, slight female predominance; Children: rare
- Gene(s) involved
- None recorded
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Capgras delusion; Illusion of doubles
Etiology & mechanism
Disconnection between facial recognition and emotional familiarity, seen in psychosis and neurodegeneration.
Gene(s) involved (0)
No gene recorded for this syndrome.
Symptoms & signs (5)
In plain terms, someone with Capgras syndrome may experience the following — click any to explore related syndromes:
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None.
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