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| Published: March 20, 2024
Clinical Lycanthropy: A Delusional, Lost Mind
Assistant Professor, Department of Organon of medicine. Shree Swaminarayanan homeopathic medical college, Gujrat, India. Google Scholar More about the auther
Associate Professor & Ph.D. Researcher, Department of MSN (Neuroscience), Harsha Institutions. Bengaluru, India. Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.190.20241201
DOI: 10.25215/1201.190
ABSTRACT
Lycanthropy is a rare variant of delusional misidentification syndrome, especially reverse intermetamorphosis, where patients believe that they are experiencing transformation or have transformed into animals. Clinical lycanthropy has been reported with various neuropsychiatric conditions, including primary psychotic and affective conditions, drug intoxication and withdrawal, cerebrovascular disease, traumatic brain injury, dementia, delirium, and seizures. Despite neuroscience still lacking the knowledge to explain the thoughts twenty-first century psychiatric has tried to theme and their cultural aspects, which relate to patient phenomenology, personal experience, and the patient and their families story telling. Clinical lycanthropy is an example of a syndrome in which environmental and cultural factors have been involved in the clinical experience of neuropsychiatric disorders since ancient times. A dual neuroscientific and cultural approach can help to better understand the clinical presentation of patients with psychiatric disorders and help to find relevant avenues of research.
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© 2024, Dey, R. & Shil, R.
Received: February 19, 2024; Revision Received: March 16, 2024; Accepted: March 20, 2024
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.190.20241201
10.25215/1201.190
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Published in Volume 12, Issue 1, January-March, 2024