When the Patient Believes That the Organs Are Destroyed: Manifestation of Cotard’s Syndrome
| Autor: | Leonardo Machado, Luiz Evandro de Lima Filho, Liliane Machado |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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| Zdroj: | Case Reports in Medicine, Vol 2016 (2016) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1687-9627 1687-9635 |
| DOI: | 10.1155/2016/5101357 |
| Popis: | Cotard’s Syndrome (CS) is a rare clinical event described for the first time in 1880 by the neurologist and psychiatrist Jules Cotard and characterized by negation delusions (or nihilists). Immortality and hypochondriac delusions are also typical. Nowadays, it is known that CS can be associated with many neuropsychiatric conditions. In this article, we describe the case of a patient that believed not having more organs and having the body deformed and whose CS was associated with a bigger depressive disorder. Although the electroconvulsive therapy is the most described treatment modality in the literature, the reported case had therapeutic success with association of imipramine and risperidone. |
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