Delusional Misidentification Syndromes: Clinical & Neuropsychological Aspects
Departmental Research Grand Round
Presented by:
Professor Oluwafemi OYEBODE (Honorary Professor of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham)
Chaired by:
Professor CHANG Wing Chung (Clinical Associate Professor)
Date:
21 March 2024
Time:
5:00 am
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6:00 am
Venue:
Room 211A&B, 2/F, New Clinical Building, Queen Mary Hospital and Zoom
Abstract:
The delusional misidentification syndromes include Capgras syndrome, Frégoli syndrome, the syndrome
of intermetamorphosis, syndrome of subjective doubles and reduplicative paramnesia. These are
relatively rare conditions but nonetheless are of great and continuing interest to psychiatrists,
neuropsychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers. Capgras syndrome, in particular, is reminiscent
of prosopagnosia and hence the interest in the possibility that a discrete neuropathology might be
identifiable resulted in a surge of interest in these conditions. In this talk I will discuss the clinical features
of these conditions and draw attention to what we know of the underlying neuropsychiatric
underpinnings, the cognitive neuropsychological abnormalities and what we can deduce about
transdiagnostic aspects of psychiatric conditions