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Brain Tumor-Associated Psychosis and Spirituality—A Case Report

This case report describes a patient with a dysembryogenic neuroepithelial tumor localized in the posterior thalamus and internal capsule, which presented with psychosis including religiously determined severe self-mutilation, auditory hallucinations, and rituals. The patient’s history includes peri...

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Autores principales: Dutschke, Lars Levi, Steinau, Sarah, Wiest, Roland, Walther, Sebastian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5694435/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29184514
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2017.00237
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description This case report describes a patient with a dysembryogenic neuroepithelial tumor localized in the posterior thalamus and internal capsule, which presented with psychosis including religiously determined severe self-mutilation, auditory hallucinations, and rituals. The patient’s history includes periodic religiousness over decades of her life suggesting that spirituality in this case might be a symptom of tumor progression. Our case reports on the topology-related effect of lesions on different brain networks involved in the phenomenology of the patient’s psychotic symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-56944352017-11-28 Brain Tumor-Associated Psychosis and Spirituality—A Case Report Dutschke, Lars Levi Steinau, Sarah Wiest, Roland Walther, Sebastian Front Psychiatry Psychiatry This case report describes a patient with a dysembryogenic neuroepithelial tumor localized in the posterior thalamus and internal capsule, which presented with psychosis including religiously determined severe self-mutilation, auditory hallucinations, and rituals. The patient’s history includes periodic religiousness over decades of her life suggesting that spirituality in this case might be a symptom of tumor progression. Our case reports on the topology-related effect of lesions on different brain networks involved in the phenomenology of the patient’s psychotic symptoms. Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-11-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5694435/ /pubmed/29184514 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2017.00237 Text en Copyright © 2017 Dutschke, Steinau, Wiest and Walther. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Dutschke, Lars Levi
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Wiest, Roland
Walther, Sebastian
Brain Tumor-Associated Psychosis and Spirituality—A Case Report
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title_short Brain Tumor-Associated Psychosis and Spirituality—A Case Report
title_sort brain tumor-associated psychosis and spirituality—a case report
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5694435/
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