Visual hallucinations: causes
Evidence-based neurology checklist on visual hallucinations: causes: Neurological causes Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) Parkinson’s disease (PD) Epilepsy: they are multicoloured, circular, or spherical Migraine: they are linear, black and white Narcolepsy Optic nerve disease Brainstem lesions:…
Neurological causes
- Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB)
- Parkinson’s disease (PD)
- Epilepsy: they are multicoloured, circular, or spherical
- Migraine: they are linear, black and white
- Narcolepsy
- Optic nerve disease
- Brainstem lesions: these causes peduncular hallucinosis
- Hemispheric lesions
- Creutzfeldt Jakob disease
- Metabolic encephalopathy
Sleep related
Visual causes
Psychiatric causes
Abuse substances
Other causes
References
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- Teeple RC, Caplan JP, Stern TA. Visual hallucinations: differential diagnosis and treatment. Prim Care Companion J Clin Psychiatry 2009; 11:26-32.
- Harding AJ, Broe GA, Halliday GM. Visual hallucinations in Lewy body disease relate to Lewy bodies in the temporal lobe. Brain 2002; 125:391-403.
- Barnes J, David AS. Visual hallucinations in Parkinson's disease: a review and phenomenological survey. JNNP 2001; 70:727-733.
- Panayiotopoulos CP. Elementary visual hallucinations in migraine and epilepsy. JNNP 1994; 57:1371-1374.
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