MY BRAIN BELIEVES I’M DEAD: COTARD’S SYNDROME

MY BRAIN BELIEVES I’M DEAD: COTARD’S SYNDROME

The psychiatrist Jules Cotard, to whom the syndrome owes its current name, described the case of a patient who claimed she had “no brain, nerves, chest, or entrails, and was just skin and bone”. She was convinced she was suffering from brain death and did not need to eat or drink; that she was just a dead brain in a living body. The enigma of this strange syndrome is explained in this report: https://gurl.pw/hYeE