• Title of article

    A REPORT OF CAPGRAS SYNDROME WITH BELIEF IN REPLACEMENT OF INANIMATE OBJECTS IN A PATIENT WHO SUFFERED FROM GRANDMAL EPILEPSY

  • Author/Authors

    Alireza Ghaffari-Nejad?، نويسنده , , Khatereh Toofani، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    فصلنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2005
  • Pages
    3
  • From page
    141
  • To page
    143
  • Abstract
    Capgras syndrome is one of the delusional misidentification syndromes, in which the patient believes that familiar persons are replaced by a double. In this case report, a middle-aged woman with a long time history of grandmal epilepsy has been reported. She believed that her sons replaced her possessions and furniture continuously. Replacement of inanimate objects was considered as a rare variant of Capgras syndrome in recent years. The patient’s history is discussed from different points of view.
  • Keywords
    Capgras syndrome , grandmal epilepsy , inanimate objects
  • Journal title
    Archives of Iranian Medicine
  • Serial Year
    2005
  • Journal title
    Archives of Iranian Medicine
  • Record number

    662632