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Cotard delusion 21 Apr 2011 | 08:14 am
The Cotard delusion or 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), ...
Treatmen of Cotard delusion 29 Mar 2011 | 09:07 am
Treatment is difficult, and tricyclic and serotoninergic antidepressant drugs have shown little efficacy. Treatment with antidepressants, however, is a potentially viable option which could prove effe...
Cotard delusion signs and symptoms 28 Mar 2011 | 08:20 pm
Young and Leafhead describe a modern-day case of Cotard delusion in a patient who suffered brain injury after a motorcycle accident: [The patient's] symptoms occurred in the context of more general f...
Cotard delusion history 28 Mar 2011 | 10:49 am
The syndrome is named after Jules Cotard (1840–1889), a French neurologist who first described the condition, which he called le délire de négation (“negation delirium”), in a lecture in Paris in 1880...
