Psychosis as an early presentation of neuro-brucellosis

Brucellosis is an endemic zoonotic infectious disease in Middle East countries including Iran. This infection may involve central nervous system. Psychosis has been reported in rare cases with chronic brucellosis. A 26-year-old male shepherd patient who developed neurobrucellosis and psychosis is presented. He had hallucinations [visual and auditory] and delusions. He was also impulsive and had serious difficulty in speech. In patients with atypical psychosis in endemic areas, physicians should consider the portability of chronic brucellosis

[ case report of incomplete capgras syndrome: a rare variant of the syndrome]

Capgras syndrome is one of the misidentification syndromes. In this phenomenon the patient has a delusional belief that familiar persons have been replaced by imposters. We report a middle aged schizophrenic female who believed that the lower half of her body has been replaced by that of another person, known as prostitute by the patient. She also reported hallucination of sexual intercourse. Rare variants of Capgras syndromes have been reported so far, but there is no report of delusion of half of body replacement. The mentioned case can be considered as incomplete Capgras syndrome that is another variant of this syndrome