The emergence of delusional companions in Alzheimer's disease: An unusual misidentification syndrome

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 317-328

  Shanks, Michael F ^a   Venneri, Annalena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DELUSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0036842521     PISSN: 13546805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546800244000021     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Breen, N., Caine, D., & Coltheart, M. (2001). Mirrored-self misidentification: Two cases of focal onset dementia. Neurocase, 7, 239-254.
2. Bruce, V., Green, P.R., & Georgeson, M.A. (1996). Visual Perception. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
3. Conway, M.A., & Tacchi, P.C. (1996). Motivated Confabulation. Neurocase, 2, 325-339.
4. Cummings, J.L., Mega, M., Gray, K., Rosenberg-Thompson, S., Carusi, D.A., & Gonbein, J. (1994). The neuropsychiatric inventory: Comprehensive assessment of psychopathology in dementia. Neurology, 44, 2308-2314.
5. De Renzi, E. (1982). Disorders of Space Exploration and Cognition. New York: Wiley.
6. De Renzi, E., Perani, D., Carlesimo, G.A., Silveri, M.C., & Fazio, F. (1994). Prosopagnosia can be associated with damage confined to the right hemisphere - An MRI and PET study and a review of the literature. Neuropsychologia, 32, 893-902.
7. Ellis, H.D. (1994). The role of the right hemisphere in the Capgras delusion. Psychopathology, 27, 177-185.
8. Feinberg, T.E., & Roane, D.M. (1997). Misidentification syndromes. In T.E. Feinberg & M.J. Farah (Eds.), Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychology (pp. 391-397). New York: McGraw-Hill.
9. Feinberg, T.E., & Shapiro, R.M. (1989). Misidentification-reduplication and the right hemisphere. Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurology, 2, 39-48.
10. Folstein, M.F., Folstein, S.E., & McHugh, P.R. (1975). Mini-Mental-State: A practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician. Journal of Psychiatry Research, 12, 189-198.
11. Förstl, H., Almeida, O.P., Owen, A.M., Burns, A., & Howard, R. (1991). Psychiatric, neurological and medical aspects of misidentification syndromes. A review of 260 cases. Psychological Medicine, 21, 905-910.
12. Förstl, H., Burns, A., Jacoby, R., & Levy, R. (1991). Neuroanatomical correlates of clinical misidentification and misperception in senile dementia of the Alzheimer type. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 52, 268-271.
13. Frith, C. (1999). Commentary on Garety & Freeman: II. Cognitive approach to delusions - A critical review of theories and evidence. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 38, 319-321.
14. Fukuhara, R., Ikeda, M., Nebu, A., Kikuchi, T., Maki, N., Hokoishi, K., Shigenobu, K., Komori, K., & Tanabe, H. (2001). Alteration of rCBF in Alzheimer's disease patients with delusions of theft. Neuroreport, 12, 2473-2476.
15. Ishiai, S. (1997). Neuropsychological disorders in minor hemisphere damage. Rinsho Shinkeigaku, 37, 1122-1124. (In Japanese)
16. Johnson, M.K., Kounios, J., & Reeder, J.A. (1994). Time-course studies of reality monitoring and recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition, 20, 1409-1419.
17. Johnson, M.K., & Raye, C.L. (1981). Reality monitoring. Psychological Review, 88, 67-85.
18. Leger, J.M., Garoux, R., Tessier, J.F., & Chevalier, B. (1986). Le compagnon tardif et l'object non animé du suject dément senile: Essai de comprehension par une étude comparative avec des phénomènes recontres au cours de l'enfance [The late-life companion and the inanimate object of the person with senile dementia: An attempt at comprehension through a comparative study with phenomena encountered during childhood]. Annales Medico-Psychologiques (Paris), 144, 341-355.
19. Levine, B., Black, S.E., Cabeza, R., Sinden, M., Mcintosh, A.R., Toth, J.P., Tulving, E., & Stuss, D.T. (1998). Episodic memory and the self in a case of isolated retrograde amnesia. Brain, 121, 1951-1973.
20. Lezak, M. (1995). Neuropsychological Assessment (3rd Ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
21. Malloy, P.F., & Richardson, E.D. (1994). The frontal lobes and content-specific delusions. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 6, 455-466.
22. McKhann, G., Drachman, D., Folstein, M., Katzman, R., Price, D., & Stadlan, E. M. (1984). Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: Report of the NINCDA-ADRDA Work Group under the auspices of Department of Health and Human Services Task Force on Alzheimer's Disease. Neurology, 34, 939-944.
23. Mega, M.S., Lee, L., Dinov, I.D., Mishkin, F., Toga, A.W., & Cummings, J.L. (2000). Cerebral correlates of psychotic symptoms in Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 69, 167-171.
24. Metcalfe, J., Funnell, M., & Gazzaniga, M.S. (1995). Right-hemisphere memory superiority: Studies of a split-brain patient. Psychological Science, 6, 157-164.
25. Mitchell, D.B., Hunt, R.R., & Schmitt, F.A. (1986). The generation effect and reality monitoring: Evidence from dementia and normal aging. Journal of Gerontology, 41, 79-84.
26. Mizukami, K., Yamakawa, Y., Yokoyama, H., Shiraishi, H., & Kobayashi, S. (1999). A case of psychotic disorder associated with a right temporal lesion: A special reference to magnetic resonance imaging and single photon emission computed tomography findings. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 53, 603-606.
27. Molchan, S.E., Martinez, R.A., Lawlor, B.A., Grafman, J.H., & Sunderland, T. (1990). Reflections of the self: Atypical misidentification and delusional syndromes in two patients with Alzheimer's disease. British Journal of Psychiatry, 157, 605-608.
28. Podoll, K., von der Stein, B., Stuhlmann, W., & Kretschmar, C. (1992). Ubergangsobjekte als regressionsphanomene bei dementen patienten [Transitional objects as regression phenomena in demented patients]. Nervenarzt, 63, 276-280.
29. Ramachandran, V.S., Altschuler, E.L., & Hillyer, S. (1997). Mirror agnosia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B, 264, 645-647.
30. Rapcsak, S.Z., Polster, M.R., Comer, J.F., & Rubens, A.B. (1994). False recognition and misidentification of faces following right hemisphere damage. Cortex, 30, 565-583.
31. Spreen, O., & Strauss, E. (1998). A Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests. Administration, Norms, and Commentary (2nd Ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.
32. Staff, R.T., Shanks, M.F., Macintosh, L., Pestell, S.J., Gemmell, H.G., & Venneri, A. (1999). Delusions in Alzheimer's disease: SPET evidence of right hemispheric dysfunction. Cortex, 35, 549-560.
33. Staff, R.T., Venneri, A., Gemmell, H.G., Pestell, S.J., Shanks, M.F., & Murray, A.D. (2000). HMPAO SPET imaging of Alzheimer's disease patients with a similar content specific autobiographical delusion: A comparison using Statistical Parametric Mapping. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 41, 1451-1455.
34. Starkstein, S.E., Vazquez, S., Migliorelli, R., Teson, A., Sabe, L., & Leiguarda, R. (1995). A single-photon emission computed tomographic study of anosognosia in Alzheimer's disease. Archives of Neurology, 52, 415-420.
35. Venneri, A., Shanks, M.F., Staff, R.T., & Della Sala, S. (2000). Nurturing syndrome: A form of pathological bereavement with delusions in Alzheimer Disease. Neuropsychologia, 38, 213-224.
36. Weinstein, E.A. (1996). Reduplicative misidentification syndromes. In P.W. Halligan & J.C. Marshall (Eds.), Method in Madness: Case Studies in Cognitive Neuropsychiatry (pp. 13-36). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
37. Weinstein, E.A., & Burnham, D.L. (1991). Reduplication and the syndrome of Capgras. Psychiatry, 54, 78.
38. Weinstein, E.A., Kahn, R.L., & Sugarman, L.A. (1952). Phenomenon of reduplication. Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, 67, 808-814,