Capgras syndrome
Capgras syndrome: uncommon syndrome in which a patient has a delusional belief that a person, usually a family member or friend, has been replaced by an imposter.
Category Medical Specialty
Joseph Capgras
French psychiatrist, Jean Marie Joseph Capgras (1873-1950) best known for his description 'syndrome d’illusion des sosies', Capgras syndrome in 1923
Ernest William Goodpasture
Ernest William Goodpasture (1886 - 1960) was an American pathologist. Goodpasture syndrome (1918)
Overcoming uncertainty in the Age of COVID-19
Overcoming uncertainty in the Age of COVID-19. Part 7 of the "COVID-19: Keeping the baby in the bath" series.
Novel drug therapies and COVID-19 clinical trials
Novel drug therapies and clinical research. Part 6 of the "COVID-19: Keeping the baby in the bath" series
COVID-19: “To PEEP, or not to PEEP”?
Part 4 of "COVID-19: Keeping the baby in the bath" discussing the setting of positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP) in critically ill COVID-19 patients.
“Silent hypoxaemia” and COVID-19 intubation
Discussing "silent hypoxaemia" and timing of intubation. Part 2 of the COVID-19: keeping the baby in the bath" series
George Frederic Still
Sir George Frederic Still (1868-1941) English paediatrician. Described as the 'father of British paediatrics'. Still's disease, Still's murmur
Thomas Fitz-Hugh
Thomas Fitz-Hugh, Jr (1894 – 1963) was an American Surgeon eponymously affiliated with Fitz-Hugh Curtis syndrome (1930, 1934)
Joseph Skoda
Joseph Škoda (1805–1881) was a Czech physician. Eponym: Skodaic ressonance (1837) - third class of percussion sounds
Ingegerd Larsen
Ingegerd Frøyshov Larsen (1937 - ) Norwegian physician and endocrinologist. Hansen-Larsen-Berg syndrome (1976)
Jules Cotard
Jules Cotard (1840 - 1889) was a French neurologist and psychiatrist. Délire de négations - Cotard Syndrome (1882)