Capgras' Syndrome in First-Episode Psychotic Disorders
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Capgras' syndrome in first-episode psychotic disorders.
BACKGROUND Misidentification phenomena, including the delusion of 'imposters' named after Joseph Capgras, occur in various major psychiatric and neurological disorders but have rarely been studied systematically in broad samples of modern patients. This study investigated the prevalence and correlated clinical factors of Capgras' phenomenon in a broad sample of patient-subjects with first-lifet...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychopathology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0254-4962,1423-033X
DOI: 10.1159/000357813