Miranda Teixeira

Nov 7, 2023 | psychiatrist.com | David Spiegel |Miranda Teixeira |Jovanna Tracz |Tony Colangelo

Capgras syndrome (CS) is a delusion of misidentification that occurs when a patient believes an individual with whom the patient is familiar is no longer themselves.1 CS classically causes the patient to believe that the person has been replaced, misidentifying the person and substituting a similar individual with a different emotional connection.