DELUSIONAL MISIDENTIFICATION SYNDROMES IN A WOMAN WITH MILD LEARNING-DISABILITIES

Schizophrenia is thought to be the commonest setting in which delusion al misidentification syndromes occur. Although schizophrenia is said t o occur more commonly in people with learning disabilities, when compa red to the general population, reports of delusional misidentification syndromes are extremely limited. The case of a 31 year old woman with mild learning disabilities and first episode of acute schizophrenia i s described. She had both Capgras and Fregoli syndromes, and a rare va riant of Capgras syndrome in which the misidentification was of a cat, rather than a significant person in her life. Aetiological factors ar e discussed.