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It is named after Jules Cotard (1840 - 1889) a French neurologist who first described the condition, which he called le délire de négation, in a lecture in Paris in 1880.
In this lecture, Cotard described a patient with the moniker of Mademoiselle X, who denied the existence of God, the Devil, several parts of her body and denied she needed to eat. Later she believed she was eternally damned and could no longer die a natural death.
Young and Leafhead (1996, p155) describe a modern day case of Cotard delusion in a patient who suffered brain injury after a motorcycle accident:
It can arise in the context of neurological illness[?] or mental illness and is particularly associated with depression and derealisation[?].
See also: delusion, delusional disorder, psychosis
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