Mirror-touch synesthesia in schizophrenia, a pathological condition?
Introduction: The mirror-touch synesthesia is a condition where a touch perception in another person's body induces the person who is observed to feel being touched in the same way. Case report: A single 22-year-old man came to the medical appointment in a private psychiatric clinic. Since his...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP)
2022-08-01
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| Series: | Debates em Psiquiatria |
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| Online Access: | https://revistardp.org.br/revista/article/view/399 |
| Summary: | Introduction: The mirror-touch synesthesia is a condition where a touch perception in another person's body induces the person who is observed to feel being touched in the same way. Case report: A single 22-year-old man came to the medical appointment in a private psychiatric clinic. Since his adolescence, he refers to auditive hallucinations, pseudo-hallucinations, frequent persecutory delusions, sonorization and insertion of the thought, and synesthesia. Among them it was reported mirror-touch synesthesia, anhedonia, and abulia. The criteria for paranoid schizophrenia were achieved during the examination. Discussion: Some evidence suggests that schizotypy may be associated with mirror-touch synesthesia. Conclusion: Scientific articles that demonstrate mirror-touch synesthesia as a part of pathology were not found.
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| ISSN: | 2236-918X 2763-9037 |