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Carola Rong1, Aaron Gerard Issac2, Elif Sena Alkan3
1Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston , Houston, TX, USA.
Abstract:
Delusional misidentification syndrome (DMS) is an umbrella term encompassing a variety of disorders. One rare form of DMS is the delusional misidentification of one's own reflection, known as "mirrored self-misidentification syndrome". In "mirror image agnosia", the ability to identify the image of self and/or others in the mirror is lost, while the ability to identify the mirror itself is preserved. To our knowledge, mirror image agnosia has never been described in a patient with schizophrenia. Herein we present a case of a patient with schizophrenia with severe delusions of both mirrored self-misidentification and mirror image agnosia without any structural abnormalities or dementia.
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