Cotard's syndrome, a rare and intriguing neuropsychiatric condition, is principally characterised by nihilistic delusions in which individuals believe that they are dead or non-existent. Although not ...

Journal of Beckett Studies, Vol. 17, No. 1-2 (September 2008), pp. 169-186 (18 pages) Ackerley, C. J. and S. E. Gontarski (eds) (2006), Faber Companion to Samuel ...

When a doctor hears his patient say he thinks his brain is dead, he knows something is seriously wrong. That’s what happened when 48-year-old Graham went to see his general practitioner to prove his ...

One of the strangest and rarest mental disorders that has been studied academically is Cotard’s Syndrome (CS), and also known as the Cotard Delusion, the Nihilistic Delusion, and the Walking Corpse ...

Cotard syndrome is a specific nihilistic delusion named after Jules Cotard, a French neurologist. Cotard first described the condition in 1880, which he called le délire de négation (negation delirium ...

One of the strangest and rarest mental disorders that has been studied academically is Cotard’s Syndrome (CS), and also known as the Cotard Delusion, the Nihilistic Delusion, and the Walking Corpse ...

The New Scientist’s Mindscapes column has a brief but fascinating profile of man identified only as “Graham” who suffers from a rare delusion known as Cotard’s syndrome. Despite walking and talking ...

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For an illness to be defined as rare, it must affect fewer than 5 in 10,000 people. Current estimates put the number of rare illnesses at around 7000. Some of these diseases have wide-ranging effects ...