When a loved one feels unfamiliar: A case study on the neural basis of Capgras delusion

Cortex

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 75-85

  Thiel, Christiane M ^a   Studte, Sara ^a,b   Hildebrandt, Helmut ^a,c   Huster, Rene ^a   Weerda, Riklef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Bremen Ost Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capgras syndrome; Faces; FMRI; Neuroimaging; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAPGRAS SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; CONFABULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISORIENTATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HUMAN; LEARNING; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PROSOPAGNOSIA; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; REINFORCEMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SOCIAL COGNITION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD LIST RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HYPOTHESIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

CAPGRAS SYNDROME; FACES; FMRI; NEUROIMAGING; SOCIAL COGNITION;

AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CAPGRAS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84895529887     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.11.011     Document Type: Article

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