TY  -  JOUR
AU  -  De Berardis, Domenico
AU  -  Brucchi, Maurizio
AU  -  Serroni, Nicola
AU  -  Rapini, Gabriella
AU  -  Campanella, Daniela
AU  -  Vellante, Federica
AU  -  Valchera, Alessandro
AU  -  Fornaro, Michele
AU  -  Iasevoli, Felice
AU  -  Mazza, Monica
AU  -  Lucidi, Giuliana
AU  -  Martinotti, Giovanni
AU  -  di Giannantonio, Massimo
T1  -  Cotard’s Syndrome after breast surgery successfully treated with aripiprazole augmentation of escitalopram: a case report
PY  -  2015
Y1  -  2015-03-01
DO  -  10.1708/1872.20458
JO  -  Rivista di Psichiatria
JA  -  Riv Psichiatr
VL  -  50
IS  -  2
SP  -  95
EP  -  98
PB  -  Il Pensiero Scientifico Editore
SN  -  2038-2502
Y2  -  2026/05/21
UR  -  http://dx.doi.org/10.1708/1872.20458
N2  -  SUMMARY. In 1880 the French neurologist Jules Cotard described a condition characterized by delusion of negation (nihilistic delusion) in a melancholia context. Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in Cotard’s syndrome (CS), but the nosographical figure of CS remains unclear. It isn’t determined if it pertains to the delusional themes area or if it is related to the sense of immanent ruin in some depressive episodes. For these reasons CS has recently been supposed to be an intermediate form. Furthermore, since even less is known about secondary CS in subjects who had never suffered of psychiatric disorders, in the present case we report the development of a secondary CS in a female patient who underwent a lumpectomy for the removal of a benign fibroadenoma. The patient responded well to aripiprazole augmentation of escitalopram and totally remitted.
ER  -