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A 30 year old schizophrenic female attacks her mother believing that aliens have replaced her with an exact double. What condition is she suffering from?

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A 30 year old schizophrenic female attacks her mother believing that aliens have replaced her with an exact double. What condition is she suffering from?


  1. Capgras syndrome
  2. Ganser syndrome
  3. Todd syndrome
  4. Fregoli syndrome
  5. Cotard syndrome

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Capgras Syndrome. [Capgras syndrome is an irrational belief that a familiar person or place has been replaced by a duplicate.

• Ganser syndrome is a fictitious disorder in which a patient deliberately acts as if he has a physical or mental illness when he doesn’t have it.

• Todd syndrome/Alice In Wonderland syndrome/Lilliputian syndrome is a disorienting neurological condition affecting human perception of size, shape and time.

• Fregoli syndrome is a delusion of doubles, a delusional belief that different ppl are infact a single person in disguise or change appearance.

• Cotard’s syndrome/Nihilistic delusions is ‘walking corpse syndrome’, the person think they are dead or that one of their organs has stopped functioning].

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