Question

After a brain injury a patient develops a delusional belief. During a skin conductance experiment normal participants show increased skin conductance when they are shown pictures of their fathers. But this patient shows no change in skin conductance when shown a picture of her father. Based on this limited information and the readings and lectures on the topic, what delusion might this patient suffer from?

Capgras

Cotard

Fregoli

Grandiosity

Answer 1

patient might suffer from CAPGRAS SYNDROME

A

• capgras syndrome in which patient have delusion of misidentification,subject see familiutar objject but not able to recognise.
• and sometime patient is said he is familiar to unfamiliar object
• may be due to brain injury or lesion
• symptoms are hallucinations, anxiety, and depression,

B COTARD DELUSION OR walking corpse syndrome

• Subject have delusion that he is dead or his internal organ are dead and damaging
• cause due to severe depression and psychotic disorder

C

• FREGOLI DELUSION - believe that any body can their personality or appearance and can go in disguise
• CAUSE
• Antiparkinsonian medications , Traumatic BRAIN INJURY

D GRANDIOSITY

• False or unusual belief THAT he is only  great.
• A person may believe, that they are immortal.