Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-dk4vv Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T14:19:28.014Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Visual Hallucinations as the Presenting Symptom of Senile Dementia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Peter M. Haddad  and
Susan M. Benbow
Peter M. Haddad
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Withington Hospital, Nell Lane, Manchester
Susan M. Benbow*
Affiliation:
York House, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9BX
*
∗Correspondence
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

A case of senile dementia that initially presented with complex visual hallucinations in the absence of clinical cognitive impairment or other psychopathology is described. Dementia must be added to the differential diagnosis of isolated visual hallucinations in the elderly.

Type
Brief Reports
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 161 , Issue 2 , August 1992 , pp. 263 - 265
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Berrios, G. E. & Brook, P. (1984) Visual hallucinations and sensory delusions in the elderly. British Journal of Psychiatry, 144, 662–664.Google Scholar
Blessed, G., Tomlinson, B. E. & Roth, M. (1968) The association between quantitative measures of dementia and of senile changes in the cerebral grey matter of elderly subjects. British Journal of Psychiatry, 114, 797–811.Google Scholar
Burns, A., Jacoby, R. & Levy, R. (1990) Psychiatric phenomena in Alzheimer's disease. 2: Disorders of perception. British Journal of Psychiatry, 157, 76–81.Google Scholar
Crystal, H., Wolfson, L. & Ewing, S. (1988) Visual hallucinations as the first symptom of Alzheimer's disease. American Journal of Psychiatry, 145, 1318.Google Scholar
Cummings, J. L., Miller, B., Hill, M. A., et al (1987) Neuropsychiatric aspects of multi-infarct dementia of the Alzheimer type. Archives of Neurology, 44, 389–393.Google Scholar
Dunn, D. W., Weisberg, L. A. & Nadell, J. (1983) Penduncular hallucinations caused by brainstem compression. Neurology, 33, 1360–1361.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ey, H. (1973) Traite des Hallucinations. 2 vols. Paris: Masson.Google Scholar
Gold, K. & Rabins, P. V. (1989) Isolated visual hallucinations and the Charles Bonnet Syndrome: a review of the literature and presentation of six cases. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 30, 90–98.Google Scholar
Lance, J. (1976) Simple formed hallucinations confined to the area of a specific visual field defect. Brain, 9, 719–734.Google Scholar
Lishman, W. A. (1989) Organic Psychiatry: The Psychological Consequences of Cerebral Disorder (second edition). Oxford: Blackwell Scientific.Google Scholar
Perry, E. K., Kerwin, J., Perry, R. H., et al (1990) Visual hallucinations and the cholinergic system in dementia. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 53, 88.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
White, N. J. (1980) Complex visual hallucinations in partial blindness due to eye disease. British Journal of Psychiatry, 136, 284–286.Google Scholar
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.