Cotard’s syndrome, also known as walking corpse syndrome, is a clinical disorder in which patients believe they are dead or no longer exist.
Publika.az informs that Assoc.Dr. Taha made important statements about Can syndrome.
He said that the syndrome was discovered by Jules Cotard in 1880:
“Cotard syndrome is often defined as a delusional belief that a person is dead or does not exist. New theories suggest that there is a deterioration in the functions of the right hemisphere of the brain. When this deterioration is combined with impaired reasoning, it leads to feelings of unreality in the perceptual and complex sensory system.”
Patients with Cotard’s syndrome have thoughts such as “I am dead” or “I have no internal organs”. They have more hypochondria and a number of clinical features. It also includes anxious and depressed mood, delusions of damnation and immortality, belief that the world does not exist, and suicidal and suicidal behavior.
Patients have severe mental retardation, think that there are people who want to kill them, deny their daily needs and refuse to eat and drink, think that their internal organs are not working. Cotard’s syndrome can occur in patients with psychiatric or neurological diseases. Psychotic depression is suggested to be an important factor in the development of this condition. Most of the patients have depressive symptoms. Apart from this, there are phenomena that indicate the occurrence of diseases such as schizophrenia, abnormal movement and emotion syndrome. Neurologically, Cotard syndrome is associated with a variety of medical conditions, including stroke, shrinkage in the frontotemporal region of the brain, epilepsy, brain inflammation, brain tumors, and traumatic brain injury.
Aysel Shahmar
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