Academic literature on the topic 'Syndrome de Cotard'

Cotard’s syndrome involves nihilistic delusions about the patient’s own body, such as believing that he or she is a walking corpse. The syndrome is named for Jules Cotard (1840–1889), a French neurologist who first described this condition in 1880. He formulated the syndrome as a new type of depression characterized by symptoms such as anxious melancholia, ideas of damnation or rejection, insensitivity to pain, delusions of nonexistence concerning one’s own body, and delusions of immortality. Along with discussing the typical progression of symptoms and associated features, this chapter situates Cotard’s syndrome within the context of several other disorders and well-known neuropsychological deficits.

This chapter discusses eponymous syndromes, including Alport’s syndrome, Asperger’s syndrome, Bardet-Biedl syndrome, Batten disease, Backer’s muscular dystrophy, Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, Bourneville’s disease, Briquet’s syndrome, Bruton agammaglobulinaemia, Buchanan’s syndrome, Capgras syndrome, Castleman’s disease, Chediak-Higashi syndrome, Condari-Hünermann syndrome, Cornelia de Lange syndrome, Corrigan’s syndrome, Cotard’s syndrome, Crigler-Najjar syndrome, Dandy-Walker syndrome, De Clerambault’s syndrome, Diamond-Blackfan anaemia, DiGeorge’s syndrome, Di Guglielmo’s disease, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Ebstein’s anomaly, Edwards syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Eisenmenger syndrome, Erb’s palsy, Fallot’s tetrad, Fanconi anaemia, Galeazzi fracture, Ganser symptom, Gaucher disease, Hand-Schüller-Christian syndrome, Hartnup’s disease, Hunter syndrome, Huntington’s disease, Hunt’s syndrome, Hurler syndrome, Hutchinson’s triad, Ivemark syndrome, Kartagener syndrome, Kawasaki disease, Klinefelter syndrome, Kugelberg-Welander, Klippel-Feil syndrome, Landouzy-Dejerine muscular dystrophy, Laurence-Moon syndrome, Leber’s herediary optic atrophy, Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, Lewy body dementia, Li-Fraumeni synfrome, Martin-Bell (fragile x) syndrome, McCune-Albright syndrome, Monteggia fracture, Morquio’s syndrome, Niemann-Pick disease, Noonan syndrome, Ondine’s curse, Othello syndrome, Patau’s syndrome, Pick’s dementia, Pierre Robin syndrome, Pompe disease, Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), Ramsay Hunt syndrome, Rett stndrome, Reye’s syndrome, Russell Silver syndrome, Shakhonovich’s syndrome, Still’s disease, Sydenham’s chorea, Syme’s amputation, Tay-Sachs disease, Tolosa-Hunt syndrome, Treacher Collins syndrome, Turner’s syndrome, Ulysses syndrome, Van Gierke’s syndrome, Werner syndrome, and Wiskott-Aldrick syndrome.