My mother - who died in 1992 - jad Capgrase syndrome for the last 25 years of her life. In watching a Science channel show aout the brain recently, I saw a woman with carpgas and her husband. And I realize - at age 60 - that I was seeing and hearing someone other than my mother with that illness for the first and only time in my life.

Seeing Dr. Morris - the Chicago doctor mentioned below - encounter this woman sure brought back memories of the complete helplessness I felt in trying to deal with my mother. (In the TV show, the capgras woman throws a glass at him and shouts him out of the house in minutes).

And yet... my mother's courage in fighting this illness - her love - changed my life for the good immesurably. But it's one hell of a condition.