reduplicative paramnesia

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Introduction

in many ways, the opposite of Capgras syndrome[1]

Clinical manifestations

  • belief that a place has been duplicated & exists simultaneously in 2 or more locations[2]
  • patient in a hospital bed insists he/she is at home[1]

More general terms

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 16. American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2012
  2. 2.0 2.1 Politis M, Loane C. Reduplicative paramnesia: a review. Psychopathology. 2012;45(6):337-43. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22854269