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Capgras syndrome is a rare disorder in which a person holds the delusional belief that an identical-looking imposter has replaced someone significant in their life. They believe the doppelganger looks ...

One January day in 2007, a terrifying idea seized a 45-year-old wife and mother in Omaha, Neb.: Her husband and teenage sons were not, in fact, her husband and teenage sons. Strangers who happened to ...

For most people, the midcentury B-movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers is exactly that: a movie. For people with Capgras syndrome, however, the classic tale of a California town whose residents are ...

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Imagine the horror of learning that your brother is in a coma as the result of a car crash. Now imagine the relief when he emerges from that coma; a relief that is soon shattered by your brother’s ...

We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 6,067,987-week series, Wiki Wormhole. This week’s entry: Capgras Delusion What it’s about: We’ve all heard of commonplace delusions—everyone’s out to get ...

On a beautiful autumn afternoon in New York's Central Park, Carol Berman had the horrifying realization that her husband of 40 years no longer recognized her as his wife. In his eyes, she wasn't the ...

"Capgras is a misidentification syndrome characterized by the transient, recurrent or permanent belief that someone known to a patient has been replaced by an impostor with a strong physical ...

On a beautiful autumn afternoon in New York’s Central Park, Carol Berman had the horrifying realization that her husband of 40 years no longer recognized her as his wife. In his eyes, she wasn’t the ...