Cotard's Syndrome

Cotard's syndrome can occur under severe, psychotic forms of endogenous major depression (also called psychotic depression, or depressive psychosis), and also as part of schizoaffective disorder, depressive-paranoid form of schizophrenia. With high frequency Cotard's syndrome is found in senile (senile, involutional) depression and psychosis. The presence of Cotard's syndrome have a comparatively young man, which according to the age criteria you can not apply the diagnosis of senile psychosis, indicating extreme severity of depression, a large proportion of anxiety in the structure of depression and high suicide risk.

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