A young patient was admitted to hospital with acute psychosis. He wakes up and asks for his wife who was there in the same room in the same area. Upon seeing her, he staed beating her thinking that it was nurse who was masquerading as his wife. He also said she was the same nurse who gave him wrong medication 2 days back and now now wants to harm him again. Likely diagnosis?
A young patient was admitted to hospital with acute psychosis. He wakes up and asks for his wife who was there in the same room in the same area. Upon seeing her, he staed beating her thinking that it was nurse who was masquerading as his wife. He also said she was the same nurse who gave him wrong medication 2 days back and now now wants to harm him again. Likely diagnosis?
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A young patient was admitted to hospital with acute psychosis. He wakes up and asks for his wife who was there in the same room in the same area. Upon seeing her, he staed beating her thinking that it was nurse who was masquerading as his wife. He also said she was the same nurse who gave him wrong medication 2 days back and now now wants to harm him again. Likely diagnosis?
β Correct Answer: A. Capgras syndrome
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