Department of Mental Health, University of Aberdeen Medical School, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB9 2ZD, UK.
Medical Research Council Applied Psychology Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 2EF, UK.
Behav Neurol. 1993;6(4):225-8. doi: 10.3233/BEN-1993-6409.
We report a case of a blind woman, M.N., who experienced the Capgras delusion. She thought that her pet cat had been replaced by a replica which was "ill-intentioned" towards her. M.N.'s case shows that the basis of the Capgras delusion cannot lie exclusively in damage to the visual system. However, testing of M.N.'s auditory recognition abilities revealed a deficit in the recognition of familiar voices. This impairment is consistent with the view that the Capgras delusion may arise in connection with damage to recognition mechanisms, and parallels findings of face processing impairments in sighted Capgras patients.
我们报告了一例盲目女性 M.N. 出现卡普格拉妄想的病例。她认为自己的宠物猫被一个“不怀好意”的复制品所取代。M.N. 的病例表明，卡普格拉妄想的基础不可能仅仅存在于视觉系统的损伤。然而，对 M.N. 的听觉识别能力的测试显示，她对熟悉声音的识别存在缺陷。这种损伤与卡普格拉妄想可能与识别机制损伤有关的观点一致，并与有视力的卡普格拉患者的面部处理损伤的发现相一致。
