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| ArticleTitle | Neuropsychology of illusion and delusion |
| Language | J |
| AuthorList | Kazumi Hirayama |
| Affiliation | Department of Occupational Therapy, Yamagata Prefectural University of Health Sciences |
| Publication | Japanese Journal of Neuropsychology: 32 (1), 52-64, 2016 |
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| Abstract | Six types of illusion or delusion are described in present study, with case reports. 1) Peripheral Anton's syndrome, denial of blindness after injury of optic nerves, right thalamus, and right frontal lobe. 2) Alice in wonderland syndrome on right side of own body, after infarction involving left insula. 3) Cotard's syndrome, delusion of death, after infarction in right hemisphere. 4) nurturing syndrome, a delusional behavior in which patients take care of not existent persons, after injury of bilateral frontal lobes. 5) Alternating feeling to be in the past and present, after treatment of a hypothalamic germinoma. 6) False feeling that one had dream shortly before, with cassation of dream (Charcot-Wilbrand syndrome), after infarction in left occipital lobe, temporal lobe and thalamus. |
| Keywords | Anton's syndrome, Alice in wonderland syndrome, Cotard's syndrome, nurturing syndrome, Charcot-Wilbrand syndrome |
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