What is Cotard's Syndrome?
The Cotard's Syndrome, which is also commonly known as the “walking corpse syndrome,“ is an extremely rare psychiatric disorder in which the sufferer holds a delusional belief that they are genuinely dead. The disorder was named after French neurologist, Jules Cotard, whom first described this disorder.
A Case Report of Cotard’s Syndrome:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2695744/
Interesting read:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/disease-prone/no-seriously-im-dead/
#neuroscience #CotardDelusion
This is unbelievable!
ReplyDeleteI thought Sixth Sense was an interesting concept... Dead people thinking they're alive.
This is like the opposite! Live people thinking they're dead!
I wonder if some of them like brains too, the Cotard zombie
ReplyDeleteThats creepy o.o
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