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When the Patient Believes That the Organs Are Destroyed: Manifestation of Cotard’s Syndrome
Joint Authors
Machado, Leonardo
Filho, Luiz Evandro de Lima
Machado, Liliane
Source
Issue
Vol. 2016, Issue 2016 (31 Dec. 2016), pp.1-3, 3 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2016-11-28
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
3
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Cotard’s Syndrome (CS) is a rare clinical event described for the first time in 1880 by the neurologist and psychiatrist Jules Cotard and characterized by negation delusions (or nihilists).
Immortality and hypochondriac delusions are also typical.
Nowadays, it is known that CS can be associated with many neuropsychiatric conditions.
In this article, we describe the case of a patient that believed not having more organs and having the body deformed and whose CS was associated with a bigger depressive disorder.
Although the electroconvulsive therapy is the most described treatment modality in the literature, the reported case had therapeutic success with association of imipramine and risperidone.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Machado, Leonardo& Filho, Luiz Evandro de Lima& Machado, Liliane. 2016. When the Patient Believes That the Organs Are Destroyed: Manifestation of Cotard’s Syndrome. Case Reports in Medicine،Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-3.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1101118
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Machado, Leonardo…[et al.]. When the Patient Believes That the Organs Are Destroyed: Manifestation of Cotard’s Syndrome. Case Reports in Medicine No. 2016 (2016), pp.1-3.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1101118
American Medical Association (AMA)
Machado, Leonardo& Filho, Luiz Evandro de Lima& Machado, Liliane. When the Patient Believes That the Organs Are Destroyed: Manifestation of Cotard’s Syndrome. Case Reports in Medicine. 2016. Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-3.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1101118
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1101118