What Is Capgras Syndrome?
6. Risk Factors
As Capgras syndrome is associate with neurodegenerative disorders, it makes sense that people in their older years are more prone to developing in. People with Parkinson’s disease are prone to the condition, and around 15% of people with Alzheimer’s will develop it at some point. Around 16% to 28% of people with Lewy body dementia are expected to get Capgras syndrome.
Other risk factors include people with anxiety, who are ten times more likely to develop Capgras disease than other people are. Deep brain stimulation is a treatment for Parkinson’s disease that is thought to increase Parkinson’s patients’ chances of developing Capgras syndrome.
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