Neurology · Neurology / Neuropsychiatry
Capgras syndrome due to neurologic disease
also: Capgras delusion
Delusion that a familiar person has been replaced by an impostor.
- Specialty
- Neurology
- Subspecialty
- Neurology / Neuropsychiatry
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected, more commonly women; Children: rare
- Gene(s) involved
- None recorded
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Capgras delusion
Etiology & mechanism
Lesions of right frontal and temporal lobes, DLB, Alzheimer disease.
Gene(s) involved (0)
No gene recorded for this syndrome.
Symptoms & signs (1)
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