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Is it possible that what specific delusions a patient develops after their brain damage correlates with their experiences before the brain damage? Maybe paranoid schizophrenics in the US tend to think the CIA is after them, but those in Soviet Russia used to think the KGB was? How would these delusions have manifested in the past, before any such organizations existed? Perhaps some of them convinced themselves that God's wrath was being brought down upon them, or that Satan was haunting them.
Also, does Capgras delusion apply to everyone the patient has an emotional reaction to, or just their spouse/parents? If you were a very political person, and felt great pride/joy when looking at your favored political leader, and then you got Capgras delusion, would you assume they were replaced by aliens? What about your teachers, doctors, and friends?
It seems almost certain. In the least one should know about CIA's existence to have that sort of delusion.
This is a great question to test the emotional reaction hypothesis. I would add: what about their enemies? A negative emotional response is still an emotional response (well, maybe, I wouldn't be so surprised if negative and positive emotions were each associated with a different part of the brain).