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1Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53114 Bonn, Germany. t.dietl@web.de
Objective:
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.
Method:
The clinical phenomenology of a case of the Capgras syndrome is explored.
Results:
A disorder of face processing might not be a sufficient explanation of the course of the disorder in this patient.
Conclusion:
Face processing accounts, of the Capgras delusion, have to be supplemented by additional assumptions.
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