a playful experiment, and they put the treatment on hold and get Cuddy. Since the patient had been mirroring whoever was the "alpha" in the room, House and Cuddy stand in front of him trying to argue over which of them is the "alpha". After momentary confusion, the patient eventually tells Cuddy, "you have great yabbos", mimicking House's thoughts. The 'real' Giovannini mirror syndrome Giovannini's Mirror Syndrome is a highly fictionalized version of a condition treated by Giovannina Conchiglia in Italy in 2007. The real-life patient suffered frontal temporal brain damage and took cues based on his environment to develop his character. His role remained the same until the situation changed. The role switching was in addition to anterograde amnesia and anosognosia. The researchers stated that the patient "seems to have lost the capacity to keep his own identity constant, as he adapts himself excessively to variations in the social contexts, violating his own identity connotations in order to favour a role which the environment proposes". References External links "Mirror Mirror" at Fox.com House (season 4) episodes 2007 American television episodes fr:Le Syndrome du miroir