Dietl T, Herr A, Brunner H, Friess E
Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53114 Bonn, Germany.
Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2003 Dec;108(6):460-2; discussion 462-3. doi: 10.1046/j.0001-690x.2003.00135.x.
Recent theoretical approaches emphasize a disorder of face processing in the pathogenesis of the Capgras syndrome. We report a patient with the Capgras syndrome developing in the physical absence of the person who is believed to be replaced and thus a limited role for a disorder of face processing.
The clinical phenomenology of a case of the Capgras syndrome is explored.
A disorder of face processing might not be a sufficient explanation of the course of the disorder in this patient.
Face processing accounts, of the Capgras delusion, have to be supplemented by additional assumptions.
