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Record W4409656384 · doi:10.1177/13591045251329972

Co-existence of Capgras syndrome and OCD in children: Case studies

2025· article· en· W4409656384 on OpenAlexaff
Ron Walfisch, Polina Perlman Danieli, Mariela Mosheva, Eitan Eldar, Y. Hochberg, Tal Shilton, Doron Gothelf

Bibliographic record

VenueClinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicBody Image and Dysmorphia Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of TorontoCentre for Addiction and Mental Health
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPsychiatryPsychologyDepression (economics)Suicidal ideationCapgras SyndromeSchizophrenia (object-oriented programming)Delusional disorderCatatoniaObsessive compulsiveClinical psychologyDelusionPsychosisPediatricsMedicinePoison controlInjury prevention

Abstract

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IntroductionCapgras syndrome (CS) is characterized by the delusional belief that a person, usually a close relative, has been replaced by an imposter. This study focuses on the co-occurrence of CS and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in children.MethodsWe present two cases of children diagnosed with CS and OCD treated at our inpatient child psychiatric unit.Cases presentationWe describe the cases of an 11-year-old male who believed his parents were demonic entities and a 12-year-old female who believed her parents were robots. Both children exhibited additional psychiatric manifestations such as depression, catatonia, obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms, persecutory delusions, reduced food intake, and suicidal ideation. Our treatment approach combines antipsychotic medication, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), and gradual exposure therapy accompanied by parent training, has yielded favorable outcomes in managing the patients' psychiatric symptoms.Discussion and ConclusionWe provide insights into CS with comorbid OCD in children and discuss the behavioral treatment approach employed in our cases. We also discuss similar cases of CS comorbid with OCD from the English literature.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Case report · Consensus signal: Case report
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.017

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.003
Science and technology studies0.0020.003
Scholarly communication0.0010.002
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0030.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.045
GPT teacher head0.460
Teacher spread0.414 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designCase report
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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Published2025
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