Capgras syndrome

Capgras syndrome. A report describes an apparently greater incidence of Capgras syndrome among the Maori population compared with the European population. Five cases of Capgras syndrome were identified in the eastern catchment area where 19% of the population identified as Maori, 75% as European, and 6% as other or nonspecified. All of the cases occurred in Maori patients. No cases were identified in the western catchment area where 12% of the population identified as Maori, 87% as European, and 1% as other or nonspecified. Four of five cases were females. Two cases had a history of cannabis use. Three cases had exhibited dangerous behavior towards family mem-... 

Capgras syndrome possibly more common among the Maori of New Zealand. Aust NZ J Psychiatry 2000 ... 

Enersen, Ole Daniel, Capgras Syndrome, http //www.-whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/2535.html... 

Hoffmann, Karen, Victims of Capgras syndrome often cannot recognize their own image, Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Tuesday, September 23, 2003, http //www.post-gazette.com/pg/03266/ 224822.stm... 

Stewart JT. Capgras syndrome related to diazepam treatment. Southern Med J 2004 97(l) 65-6. 

A healthy volunteer who received ketamine as part of a drug study reported a delusional syndrome similar to Capgras syndrome, in which a person familiar to the individual is believed to have been supplanted by an imposter [31 ]. Within 15 minutes of withdrawal of ketamine she reported that Every time you left the... 

Corlett PR Capgras syndrome induced by ketamine in a healthy subject. Biol Psychiatry 2010 68 el-2. 

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