Herculano Sá de Figueiredo (1911-74): a sculptor in the Conde de Ferreira Hospital, Portugal.

Herculano Sá de Figueiredo's sculptures remained anonymous inside the Conde de Ferreira Hospital of Oporto (Portugal) for over 30 years. The accidental discovery of the patient's clinical file enabled the authors of this paper to establish the link between the man, his work and his psychiatric pathology. The artwork kept in the hospital was not previously known in academic and artistic circles.

[Cotard's delusion of negations].

The authors report a clinical case of a sixty-two-year-old woman admitted to hospital because Cotard's nihilistic delusion in a one year major depressive episode. The patient was treated with clomipramine and olanzapine with a rapid improvement and normalisation of humor and delusions.