Desordenes Psiquiatricos

[pic]

Cotard's syndrome or Walking Corpse Syndrome

 is a rare neuropsychiatric disorder in which people hold a delusional belief that they are dead (either figuratively or literally), do notexist, are putrefying, or have lost their blood or internal organs. In 55% of cases it may include delusions of immortality.





Capgras syndrome) is a disorder in which a person holdsa delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, or other close family member has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor. The Capgras delusion is classified as a delusional misidentification syndrome, a class ofdelusional beliefs that involves the misidentification of people, places, or objects.



The Fregoli delusion or the delusion of doubles is a rare disorder in which a person holdsa delusional belief that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise. The syndrome may be related to a brain lesion, and is often of a paranoid nature with the delusionalperson believing themselves persecuted by the person they believe is in disguise.

Alice-in-Wonderland syndrome (AIWS, named after the novel written by Lewis Carroll), also known as Todd'ssyndrome,[1] is a disorienting neurological condition that affects human perception. Sufferers may experience micropsia, macropsia, or size distortion of other sensory modalities. A temporary condition, it is oftenassociated with migraines, brain tumors, and the use of psychoactive drugs.[citation needed] It can also present as the initial sign of the Epstein-Barr Virus

 Diogenes syndrome, also knownas senile squalor syndrome, is a disorder characterized by extreme self-neglect, domestic squalor, social withdrawal, apathy, compulsive hoardingof rubbish, and lack of shame.

Clinical lycanthropy isdefined as a rare psychiatric syndrome that involves a delusion that the affected person can transform or has transformed into a non-human animal or that he or she is an animal.[1] Its name is...