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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from house Stuff Works

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Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark.

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure the person with me is always is

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Speaker 1: Charles W. Tuck Bryant cap grasp Eva. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: it's cup Crows because it's a Frenchman who was the

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Speaker 1: first person to describe. Jerry just called it crap crass.

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Speaker 1: We're all kinds of screwed up, and I'm not going

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Speaker 1: to say cop crawl the whole time, so we'll just

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Speaker 1: say cap gradsbnxious. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like we're

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Speaker 1: not in Quebec, that's right, umque right. This is basically

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Speaker 1: our our Invasion of the Body Snatchers episode podcast that

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Speaker 1: unless we do one on the Invasion of the Body Snatchers,

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Speaker 1: that's kind of the deal. Though. We're talking today about

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Speaker 1: a very very strange and once thought to be uncommon

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Speaker 1: and rare disorder um a delusional disorder, a delusional misidentification disorder,

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Speaker 1: to be specific, where the sufferer believes that the people

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Speaker 1: in his or her life, people very close to him,

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Speaker 1: have all been replaced by impostors, that they're there, like

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at you right now, Chuck, and you look

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Speaker 1: just like Chuck, and you're doing a great job with

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Speaker 1: the voice and everything, but like, I don't want to

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Speaker 1: say it, and I don't want to look you in

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Speaker 1: the eye, but like, you're obviously not chucking. What's going on?

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Speaker 1: I think we all feel that about each other occasionally,

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Speaker 1: but imagine like that all the time, Like, how would

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Speaker 1: you just not lose faith in the reality of anything

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Speaker 1: if you thought, first of all, how are people? How

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Speaker 1: are they coming up with great impostors like this? Who

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Speaker 1: is they? Why are they doing this? Why you? Is

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Speaker 1: it just you? Or it's the whole world? Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: it's like there's a lot of really weighty questions involved

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Speaker 1: with this, and as a result, science has been trying

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Speaker 1: to really figure out the mystery behind it and has

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Speaker 1: failed thus far. Yeah, and you know we we already

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Speaker 1: should say. It's not only difficult on the person, but

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Speaker 1: it's difficult on the person being misidentified as well. And

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Speaker 1: you don't really don't hear a lot about that. I

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Speaker 1: read a bunch of articles on this and only one said,

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Speaker 1: and don't forget if someone if your wife thinks that

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Speaker 1: you're an impostor, it's really tough on you as well. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that just kind of overlooked, Yeah, very much. So. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so this is actually kind of a newish phenomenon as

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Speaker 1: far as description goes. UM Dr Copgraw and Dr Rebu

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Speaker 1: last show UM described Madame m who believed that she

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Speaker 1: had as many as eighty husbands, all of them the same,

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Speaker 1: looking the same, but they were all impostors and she

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Speaker 1: never could get close to him because Um, eventually they

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Speaker 1: would just kind of leave and be replaced by a

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Speaker 1: new one. And she was really convinced of this. And

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Speaker 1: I'm sure at the time they thought, what this lady

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Speaker 1: is just nuts? But then the more people did research,

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Speaker 1: the more they found and I couldn't find any good

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Speaker 1: stats on how rare it is undered thousands and that

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Speaker 1: means nothing. So the one I saw it was in

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Speaker 1: two thousand or six five. I believe the estimate was

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Speaker 1: between one point three to four point one percent of

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Speaker 1: all psychiatric patients have cap Craw And you can probably

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Speaker 1: say that if that's close, then that's probably close to

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Speaker 1: the general population. Because if you believe that the people

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Speaker 1: who are closest to you in your life are impostors

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Speaker 1: and you're accusing them as such, they're probably gonna force

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Speaker 1: you to go seek psychiatric help. So that would probably

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Speaker 1: be a pretty close statistic for the society. For society

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Speaker 1: at large, and where you really see it though, is

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Speaker 1: in Alzheimer's patients. The statistic was between two and thirty

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Speaker 1: percent of Alzheimer's patients possibly suffer from cop craw or

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Speaker 1: crab grass. But isn't that just all timers. No, not

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Speaker 1: necessarily Alzheimers. You know, let's it can be forgetfulness. Um,

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Speaker 1: that can be uh, yeah, I guess this orientation. This

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Speaker 1: is the you're accusing your husband, your wife, your son,

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Speaker 1: your daughter of being somebody else, somebody posing it is them. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that makes sense. So this is different than something we've

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Speaker 1: covered face blindness before, right, we talked about it came

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Speaker 1: up in something else, but yeah, maybe we did do

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Speaker 1: a whole podcast on it. I'm not sure. But that

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Speaker 1: That's when you you can see your face over and

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Speaker 1: but um, they they've done studies with skin conduct conductance

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Speaker 1: your face, which is a it's a measure of the

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Speaker 1: limbics system being active, which is in turn a measure

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Speaker 1: of your emotions going off. Yeah, with the you being

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Speaker 1: then that is a physiological or psychological queue that like, hey,

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Speaker 1: normal if you have propagnosia um you will not recognize

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Speaker 1: So that means that the emotional cue is still triggered

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Speaker 1: even though you don't know who you're looking at. That's

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Speaker 1: the opposite of studies of um cap cross syndrome. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: basically like they're looking at a picture of a complete stranger, right,

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Speaker 1: and and they don't have they they don't have that

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing. They recognize the face enough to know

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Speaker 1: this is my dad. They are rational enough. That's the

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Speaker 1: called a mono thematic syndrome where you have one delusion

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Speaker 1: and it's a whopper and it basically consumes your whole life.

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Speaker 1: So the irrational otherwise and the rational enough to say, Okay,

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Speaker 1: and I should and because I don't, this is an imposter.

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Speaker 1: the common things that the people with the syndrome will

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Speaker 1: say is that like their soul is gone or their

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Speaker 1: soul is missing. That's a different syndrome. No, no no, No,

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Speaker 1: that that's that's linked to cap GRAB because they'll recognize

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Speaker 1: the other person. Yea, the person they're looking at is

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Speaker 1: that's not my mother, that's not there. There would sense

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Speaker 1: my mother's soul, right. So what they think then is

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Speaker 1: in stimuli, right, like visual stimula. I'm looking at you

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Speaker 1: and at the same time I'm looking at Chuck, and

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Speaker 1: that same memory that I'm forming of the visual representation

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Speaker 1: That is a full memory with cop craw people who

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Speaker 1: Mirror Neurons episode. It's just a brilliant genius dude as

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Speaker 1: text maybe I think so, um he he said. Probably.

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Speaker 1: What's happening then is you have a secondary lesion, secondary

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Speaker 1: to to explain a way strange phenomenon. In this case,

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Speaker 1: well it must be an impostor. Yeah, well the emotional

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Speaker 1: The person is not delusional. It's there's an impostor. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: can you know, that's my dog, but it's not. I

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Speaker 1: all this stuff. Yeah, and I mean imagine the paranoia

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Speaker 1: and it's it's usually your spouse to um. One article,

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Speaker 1: some of the explanations that science has come up with,

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Speaker 1: feel really guilty. Um. Again, again we should say that

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Speaker 1: it's a result of an actual organic cause, something physically

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Speaker 1: They look for lesions, UM, cerebral dysfunction, signs of atrophy,

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Speaker 1: lot of time with psychotic disorders UM, epilepsy, even Alzheimer's,

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Speaker 1: and you mentioned schizophrenia, which makes sense. I think bipolar

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Speaker 1: you know what, it might be a combination of these things,

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Speaker 1: like physical and cognitive causes, Like you have some sort

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Speaker 1: So what's clear is there's a breakdown and communication. There

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