Capgras Syndrome, Out of Body Experience and Autoprosopagnosia: Case Study with Literature Review
Neurology and Neuroscience September 30, 2024 Nabil Ahmed Numan
A patient with both delusion (false belief) and hallucination (false perception) was diagnosed not with psychosis or schizophrenia but with Capgras syndrome and autoscopic phenomenon (out-of-body experience). The delusion involved believing a close relative had been replaced by an imposter, while the false perception involved feeling the self located outside the physical body. The patient also experienced inability to recognize his own face in a mirror (autoprosopagnosia). These symptoms occurred in an 18-year-old who had recovered from a subdural hematoma in the right frontoparietal lobes after a motorcycle accident, one week after leaving the hospital.