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    around hell", and that she was asleep i

    ALIVE OR DEAD, THE


    TRUTH WON'T REST.
    RISE UP WHILE YOU
    CAN.
    MIRA GRANT, FEED

    Sources :
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotard_delus
    ion

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles
    /PMC2695744/

    http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23
    583-mindscapes-first-interview-with-a-
    dead-man.html
    Submitted By :
    Roland Irwin T. Yu
    BSMT 2-D



    This disease may sound
    like it comes out of a series or a
    movie and for those who were
    hoping this doesnt turn people
    into real zombies. Sorry to
    disappoint but they just have a
    defect in their brain that makes
    them think they are undead which
    then leads them not to care for
    their body and health.


    This can be caused by
    brain damage and doctors
    already found a cure for this
    particular brain disease but with
    its uniqueness it became one of
    the top 10 weirdest diseases in
    the world.

























    THE WALKING
    CORPSE SYNDROME

    The underlying neurophysiology and
    psychopathology of Cotard's Syndrome might
    be related to problems of delusional mis-
    identification. Neurologically, the Cotard
    delusion (negation of the Self) is thought to be
    related to the Capgras delusion (people
    replaced by impostors); each type of delusion is
    thought to result from neural misfiring in
    the fusiform face area of the brain (which
    recognizes faces) and in the amygdalae (which
    associate emotions to a recognized face).

    SYMPTOMS


    Distorted reality
    The article Betwixt Life and Death: Case
    Studies of the Cotard Delusion (1996)
    describes a contemporary case of Cotard
    delusion, occurred in a Scotsman whose
    brain was damaged in a motorcycle
    accident:
    [The patient's] symptoms occurred in the
    context of more general feelings of unreality
    and [of] being dead. In January 1990, after
    his discharge from hospital in Edinburgh, his
    mother took him to South Africa. He was
    convinced that he had been taken
    to Hell (which was confirmed by the heat),
    and that he had died of septicaemia (which
    had been a risk early in his recovery), or
    perhaps from AIDS (he had read a story
    in The Scotsman about someone with AIDS
    who died from septicaemia), or from an
    overdose of a yellow fever injection. He
    thought he had "borrowed [his] mother's
    spirit to show [him]



    The main symptom of this
    disease is the delusion
    of negation. People
    afflicted by this
    syndrome usually think
    theyre immortal and try
    to test it.



    CAPTION
    CAPTION
    BRAIN DISEASE
    CAPTION
    CAPTION
    TREATMENT



    The article Cotard's syndrome: A Review (2010)
    reports successful pharmacological treatments
    (mono-therapeutic and multi-therapeutic)
    using antidepressant , antipsychotic, and mood
    stabilizing drugs; likewise, with the depressed
    patient, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is more
    effective than pharmacotherapy. Cotard
    syndrome resulting from an adverse drug
    reaction to valacyclovir is attributed to elevated
    serum concentration of one of valacyclovir's
    metabolites, 9-carboxymethoxymethylguanine
    (CMMG






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