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CAPGRAS SYNDROME IN VASCULAR DEMENTIA: RECOGNITION MEMORY AND VISUAL PROCESSING
Author(s) -
OYEBODE FEMI,
EDELSTYN NICOLA M. J.,
PATEL ABDUL,
RIDDOCH M. J.,
HUMPHREYS G. W.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
international journal of geriatric psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1099-1166
pISSN - 0885-6230
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(199601)11:1<71::aid-gps322>3.0.co;2-c
Subject(s) - capgras syndrome , psychology , neuropsychology , dementia , visual memory , audiology , lateralization of brain function , visual processing , right hemisphere , cognitive psychology , perception , facial recognition system , face perception , neuroscience , medicine , cognition , psychiatry , pattern recognition (psychology) , disease , pathology , delusion
Abstract Face recognition memory and the processing of tachistoscopically presented visual stimuli were investigated in two subjects with Capgras syndrome coexisting with vascular dementia. The subjects were both found to have impairment of face recognition memory as well as impairment of verbal recognition memory. One of the subjects was found to have a reversal of the usual advantage of the right hemisphere for processing perceptual stimuli which were visually similar. The failure to find this reversed pattern in the other subject was attributed to CT scan evidence of an old anterior infarct of his left hemisphere. The neuropsychological basis of Capgras syndrome is discussed in the light of these findings.