Categorizations Of Cotard's Syndrome

The human brain is probably the most complex organ known to man. Its is the central organ of the human nervous system and it weighs around 2.6 lbs (1.2 – 1.4 kg). The brain is the most important part of our bodies; it helps us read, talk, learn, remember, move, and even breathe. Now and then parts of the brain may get damage, or suffer from irregularities, prohibiting the brain to carry out its functions properly. The brain is mainly divided in four lobes: frontal, occipital, temporal and perietal. If any of these were to be impared, the person would suffer major consequences. For instance, if the occipital lobe is damaged, one may loose his/her vision. Or if the perietal lobe suffers an injury the senses of your body will no longer be of
Pshycotic Depression may cause strong delusions, depression, hallucinations and even social impairement. When a patient suffers from Cotard’s Syndrome Type I they tend to experience multiple delusions. Patients with Cotard’s Syndrome Type II suffer from anxiety, delusions, hallucinations (auditory) and depression; this is also the most common.
Biologically speaking, there is no clear problem with the people that suffer from Cotard’s. But there are some possible psychobiological mechanisms that could influence a patient with this delusion. For example, this contorted truth could be caused by a breakdown in a zone of the mind called the fusiform gyrus, which perceives faces. Or it could be an overactivation of the amygdala and inhibition of left prefrontal cortex. It could be caused by damage to the prefrontal cortex; or damage of temporoparietal areas of the right cerebral hemisphere.
Medically speaking Cotard’s Syndrome could be caused by multiple factors. It could be associated with syphillis, epilepsy, migranes, high fevers, multiple sclerosis, ccerebral infracition, cerebral trauma, brain tumors, brain injury, Parkinson’s diesease, arachnoid cyst, herpetic and non-herpetic encephalitis, cerebral arterio-venous malformations, superior saggital sinus thrombosis, and even complications of heart
In terms of it being associated with othe phenomenological descriptions, there have been some cases where patients with Cotard’s Syndrome also suffer from hydrophobia, lycanthropy (when a patient believes he/she is a wolf or other nonhuman animal), Capgras Delusion (patient believes loved one has beel replaced with an identical impostor) or Fregolis Delusion, Odysseus Syndrome (patient believes loved ones have died), depersonalization disorder, catatonia, koro-like syndrome, and voluntary