Rare psychiatric illnesses

Psychiatric pathologies are a source of great suffering and stigmatization of patients.

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By: Caroline Paré Follow

3 min

Thinking that you are already dead (Cotard Syndrome), believing that your loved ones have been replaced by look-alikes (Capgras Syndrome), speaking your mother tongue with a foreign accent (Foreign accent syndrome) ... Rare psychiatric illnesses result in particular by identification disorders, mental disorders linked to brain damage or strong emotional reactions, after a traumatic experience.

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In addition, some rare diseases can lead to psychiatric illnesses.

Thus, 2 to 3% of patients suffering from schizophrenia are carriers of a genetic abnormality.

What are the causes of these pathologies?

What care is possible for patients?

  • Dr Boris Chaumette,

    psychiatrist in charge of

    the Reference Center for Rare Diseases with psychiatric expression

    at

    GHU Paris Psychiatrie et Neurosciences

    (ex-Sainte Anne hospital), researcher in genetics of psychiatric disorders at

    the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurosciences of Paris

    (INSERM unit U1266) and lecturer at

    the University of Paris

    .

  • Prof. Samuel Mampunza

    , neuropsychiatrist, former dean of the

    Faculty of Medicine of Kinshasa

    , former dean of the Faculty of Medicine of

    the Protestant University in Congo

     and current academic secretary general (vice-rector) of the Protestant University in Congo (UPC) .

    Current President of the

    African Mental Health Society (SASM)

  • With the testimony of

    Justine

    , whose mother suffers from Diogenes syndrome

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, and the organization of the response with

Pr Serge Eholié

, head of the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department of the University Hospital of Treichville and teacher in Infectious Diseases at Félix Houphouët Boigny University in Abidjan.

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