Psychiatry · Psychiatry / Delusional misidentification syndromes
Cotard syndrome
also: Cotard delusion; Walking corpse syndrome
Nihilistic delusion that one is dead, decaying or non-existent.
- Specialty
- Psychiatry
- Subspecialty
- Psychiatry / Delusional misidentification syndromes
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected, female predominance; Children: rare
- Gene(s) involved
- None recorded
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Cotard delusion; Walking corpse syndrome
Etiology & mechanism
Severe depression or psychosis with disrupted self-affective integration.
Gene(s) involved (0)
No gene recorded for this syndrome.
Symptoms & signs (7)
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2 shared
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hallucinations
1 shared
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anxiety
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anxiety
1 shared
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Shares genes with
None.
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