2016
DOI: 10.1155/2016/5101357
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When the Patient Believes That the Organs Are Destroyed: Manifestation of Cotard’s Syndrome

Abstract: 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. … Show more

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“…8 They described three types of Cotard's syndrome: Psychotic depression (patients with melancholia and nihilistic delusions), Cotard type 1 included the pure forms of nihilistic delusions without affective symptoms and Cotard type 2 with a mixed group of symptoms of anxiety, depression and auditory hallucinations. 4,11 It is also generally said that symptoms of Cotard's syndrome develop over the period. Three stages of development of Cotard's syndrome have been proposed: germination stage, blooming stage and chronic stage.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…8 They described three types of Cotard's syndrome: Psychotic depression (patients with melancholia and nihilistic delusions), Cotard type 1 included the pure forms of nihilistic delusions without affective symptoms and Cotard type 2 with a mixed group of symptoms of anxiety, depression and auditory hallucinations. 4,11 It is also generally said that symptoms of Cotard's syndrome develop over the period. Three stages of development of Cotard's syndrome have been proposed: germination stage, blooming stage and chronic stage.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…El síndrome de Cotard es una entidad clínica infrecuente cuya principal característica es el delirio de negación. Actualmente no existe un consenso en la definición del síndrome, por lo que no cuenta con una descripción específica en el Manual Diagnóstico y Estadístico de los Trastornos Mentales (DSM-5) 1,5,6,8,14 .…”
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“…El paciente presentaba delirios de negación (reportaba estar vacío por dentro, pues sus órganos habían sido destruidos, y que estaba podrido), hipocondríaco (decía que su cuerpo estaba deformado y su cara llena de hoyos) y de culpa. Fue tratado con imipramina y risperidona, alcanzando recuperación clínica y reinserción social luego de 60 días en la institución 5 .…”
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