Imagine listening to a person complains about his life is "dead". It must be difficult with the smoke of a decomposing body or the tragedy of the disappearance of the vital organs. In episode 14 of the 4th season of the television series "Scrubs", a character named Jerry played the role of a patient with the "Walking Corpse Syndrome".
The "Walking Corpse Syndrome" is a form of psychosis that is deluded to think that the patient is dead and decaying. Sorry necrophilia, because in fact, is very much alive and will not break down at any time. He believes that he is losing parts of their body organs or blood, her soul included. Also called "Cotard's Syndrome," after Jules Cotard, the Parisian neurologist who first in describing their symptoms.
This syndrome is typically related to depression and psychosis, as Schizoprenia and bipolar disorder. Reckless Road care, such as cases arising from brain injuries have also been reported. In 1996, a case of Cotard was documented in a patient who suffered a brain injury after of a motorcycle accident. After being discharged from hospital in Scotland, his mother took him to South Africa. However, according to the patient, it was a trip Hell, as evidenced by the heat and died for various reasons, from septicemia due to AIDS, to an overdose of a yellow fever injection. I thought the spirit his mother was taken to show all hell. "Going through hell" gets a new perspective, with guidance from parents this time.
Cotard is considered related to Capgras syndrome (the belief that their relatives have been replaced by impostors). A disconnect between the brain areas that recognize the faces and the area associated with the emotions that are connected to facing in particular has been implicated as the culprit. Is more prevalent among middle – age and older patients.
The cases are too few for a repeat of video of Michael Jackson, "Thriller." Electroconvulsive treatments have shown to help especially associated with major depressive disorders. With the rarity of the syndrome, doctors are still at a loss for appropriate treatment. This requires a challenge among medical researchers to save these patients from their premature "deaths".
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