by Mark Griffiths, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Most people are familiar with psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, but some conditions are so rare that many psychiatrists won’t come across a single case in their professional lives. Here I present five of the rarest—and strangest—syndromes known to psychiatry. 1. Fregoli syndrome Fregoli syndrome is...
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When is ‘dead’ really dead? What happens after a person ‘flatlines’
by Amanda Van Beinum and Sonny Dhanani, The Conversation New research shows that heart activity may not always end with a flatlined monitor. Credit: Shutterstock How long should doctors wait after a “flatline” appears before they can declare a person dead? How can they be sure that heartbeat and circulation will not return? The most common way...