Capgras syndrome creates the delusion that familiar people have been replaced by identical impostors—your facial recognition and emotional response teams have disconnected, generating suspicious interpretations. Normally, seeing a loved one activates both visual recognition (fusiform face area identifying features) and emotional recognition (limbic system generating familiarity feelings). In Capgras, likely due to lesions affecting connections between temporal cortex and limbic system, your face-identification teams correctly recognize the person, but your emotional-validation teams fail to produce the accompanying warmth and familiarity. This creates profound cognitive dissonance: "This person looks exactly like my spouse, but I feel nothing—therefore, they must be an imposter." Your interpretation teams resolve the mismatch with the only logical (though incorrect) explanation they can generate. Capgras often occurs in schizophrenia, dementia, or after traumatic brain injury affecting right hemisphere or connections between visual and emotional processing regions. The "organism as team" model helps understand this as a wiring problem: visual intelligence teams and emotional intelligence teams have lost their communication link, so they're generating separate, conflicting reports. Treatment involves antipsychotics that modulate dopamine signaling in delusional-thinking pathways, addressing underlying conditions, and therapeutic approaches that help reality-testing teams develop alternative validation methods beyond emotional feeling alone. ⚕️ This protocol does not replace professional consultation.