Domenico De Berardis, Maurizio Brucchi, Nicola Serroni, Gabriella Rapini, Daniela Campanella, Federica Vellante, Alessandro Valchera, Michele Fornaro, Felice Iasevoli, Monica Mazza, Giuliana Lucidi, Giovanni Martinotti, Massimo di Giannantonio
In 1880 the French neurologist Jules Cotard described a condition characterized by delusion of negation (nihilistic delusion) in a melancholia context. Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in Cotard's syndrome (CS), but the nosographical figure of CS remains unclear. It isn't determined if it pertains to the delusional themes area or if it is related to the sense of immanent ruin in some depressive episodes. For these reasons CS has recently been supposed to be an intermediate form. Furthermore, since even less is known about secondary CS in subjects who had never suffered of psychiatric disorders, in the present case we report the development of a secondary CS in a female patient who underwent a lumpectomy for the removal of a benign fibroadenoma...
March 2015: Rivista di Psichiatria