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An unusual delusion of duplication in a patient affected by Dementia with Lewy bodies.

Paolo SollaGioia MuraAntonino CannasGianluca FlorisDavide FontiGianni OrofinoMauro Giovanni CartaFrancesco Marrosu
Published in: BMC neurology (2017)
An occipital hypoperfusion was identified, although in association with a marked global decrease of perfusion in the remaining lobes. The role of posterior lobes is certainly important in all misidentification syndromes where a natural dissociation between recognition and identification is present. Moreover, the concomitant presence of severe attentional and executive deficits evocative for a frontal syndrome and the marked global decrease of perfusion in the remaining lobes at the SPECT scan also suggest a possible dysfunction in an abnormal connectivity between anterior and posterior areas.
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