The misidentification syndromes as mindreading disorders

Hirstein, William

doi:10.1080/13546800903414891

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“…Individuals with misidentification syn dromes may claim that their body parts do not belong to them or may even perceive that their close relatives are imposters (Hirstein, 2010). Alice-in-Wonderland syndrome is characterized by temporary distortions of visual and auditory percep tion, changes in the concept of time and body image, and even hallucinations and déjà-vu experiences (Brumm, Walenski, Haist, Robbins, Granet, & Love, 2010).…”

Section: Disorders Of Connectivitymentioning

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Windows into the Visual Brain: New Discoveries about the Visual System, Its Functions, and Implications for Practitioners

Jan

Heaven

Matsuba

et al. 2013

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness

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Introduction In recent years, major progress has been made in understanding the human visual system because of new investigative techniques. These developments often contradict older concepts about visual function. Methods A detailed literature search and interprofessional discussions. Results Recent innovative neurological tests are described that are able to show much more accurately the visual pathways, the process of vision, and the close relationships among sensory modalities. These tests also reveal the remarkable neuroplasticity of the human brain and disorders of connectivity that frequently involve visual function. Discussion How these recent neurological advances may benefit service providers is discussed. Implications for practitioners It is important that from time to time new neurological and ophthalmic developments are summarized for professionals who are involved in the clinical management of individuals with visual disorders and how the newly acquired knowledge affects the diagnosis and intervention strategies. Visual rehabilitation must be based on up-to-date science, which continually changes and grows with research.

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Section: Disorders Of Connectivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Windows into the Visual Brain: New Discoveries about the Visual System, Its Functions, and Implications for Practitioners

Jan

Heaven

Matsuba

et al. 2013

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness

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“…In this context, a previous review of studies on activation specific to common PF people assigned entire activated areas (i.e., both cognitive and affective) to this route (102). From the perspective of the two-factor hypothesis of delusional misidentification, perceptual (first factor) and belief evaluation (second factor) processes have been suggested to be located in the posterior and prefrontal cortices, respectively (8,103). Some authors have speculated more specifically.…”

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“…Thus, a supervisory process, such as belief evaluation (the second factor), has been assumed to be critical for correct person recognition. One author has considered the first factor egocentric person representation (e.g., personality, belief, and thoughts) implemented by mind-reading (8).…”

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Neuroimaging studies on recognition of personally familiar people

Sugiura¹

2014

Front Biosci

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“…One candidate for the first factor in Capgras syndrome is damage to our brains' systems devoted to understanding the minds and personalities of other people (Hirstein, 2005(Hirstein, , 2010. As Capgras patient JH said, when it was pointed out that the women he claimed was not his mother looked exactly like an older photo of a woman he did acknowledge as his mother, "It's not the outside, it's the inside."…”

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“…I have argued that damage to the TPJ of Capgras patients disrupts their representations of the minds and personalities of their loved ones. It produces the appearance of a familiar body housing an unfamiliar mind (Hirstein, 2009(Hirstein, , 2010.…”

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Loved Ones Near and Far: Feinberg’s Personal Significance Theory

Hirstein

2010

Neuropsychoanalysis

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Commentary by William Hirstein (Elmhurst, IL)Todd Feinberg's personal significance theory offers a coherent and unified explanation for the misidentification syndromes, such as Capgras syndrome, as well as certain body-image disorders, such as asomatognosia and somatoparaphrenia. This reply offers several criticisms directed toward sharpening the theory. First, personal significance is still a broad and indistinct concept, and most of the representations in our brains are of people and things of personal significance to us. Second, the idea that the Capgras patient has lost his sense of personal significance for, for example, his parents, does not explain why he believes they are impostors. A more specific hypothesis directed toward explaining this is that Capgras syndrome involves a type of mindreading disorder, in which the patient's representation of his parents' minds and personalities is damaged or inaccessible to his cognition. If we assume that our representations of peoples' external features can become disconnected from our representations of their internal, mental features, this is exactly the sort of thing that would produce the appearance of an impostor. Third, the two-factor account of delusions offers a plausible competitor to Feinberg's approach. According to it, Capgras syndrome is caused by two sites of damage in the brain, one that affects the way the person appears to the patient, and a second, frontal site of damage that affects the patient's rationality in such a way that he does not notice the gross implausibility of the impostor claim.

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The misidentification syndromes as mindreading disorders

Cited by 28 publications

References 66 publications

Windows into the Visual Brain: New Discoveries about the Visual System, Its Functions, and Implications for Practitioners

Windows into the Visual Brain: New Discoveries about the Visual System, Its Functions, and Implications for Practitioners

Neuroimaging studies on recognition of personally familiar people

Loved Ones Near and Far: Feinberg’s Personal Significance Theory

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