Citation

Machado L, De Lima Filho LE, Machado L. Case Rep. Med. 2016; 2016.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Hindawi Publishing)

DOI

10.1155/2016/5101357

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Cotard's Syndrome (CS) is a rare clinical event described for the first time in 1880 by the neurologist and psychiatrist Jules Cotard and characterized by negation delusions (or nihilists). Immortality and hypochondriac delusions are also typical. Nowadays, it is known that CS can be associated with many neuropsychiatric conditions. In this article, we describe the case of a patient that believed not having more organs and having the body deformed and whose CS was associated with a bigger depressive disorder. Although the electroconvulsive therapy is the most described treatment modality in the literature, the reported case had therapeutic success with association of imipramine and risperidone. Copyright © 2016 Leonardo Machado et al.

Language: en

Keywords

adult; human; male; case report; insomnia; depression; psychosis; suicide attempt; imipramine; delusion; risperidone; psychomotor retardation; cotard syndrome; Article; attention disturbance; feeding disorder; thinking impairment; personal hygiene; condemnation delusion; guilty delusion; hypochondriac delusion; hypoprosexia