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Autoscopic Hallucinations in an African American Female Patient With Schizophrenia

Autoscopic hallucinations are rare phenomena, with a handful of cases reported in patients with comorbidities and only one in a patient with schizophrenia. This case report discusses a 25-year-old African American female with schizophrenia and auditory hallucinations who presented with autoscopic ha...

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Autores principales: Gajaram, Ganeya, Lake, Tiffiney, Nguyen, Dung, Sangha, Sukhjeet, Jolayemi, Ayodeji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7993062/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33786219
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13510
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author Gajaram, Ganeya
Lake, Tiffiney
Nguyen, Dung
Sangha, Sukhjeet
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description Autoscopic hallucinations are rare phenomena, with a handful of cases reported in patients with comorbidities and only one in a patient with schizophrenia. This case report discusses a 25-year-old African American female with schizophrenia and auditory hallucinations who presented with autoscopic hallucinations. The patient was interviewed on three separate occasions, her medical chart was consulted, a head computed tomography (CT) was performed, and her serum and urine laboratory values were monitored. Her head CT was normal, and her laboratory values were unremarkable. This case report contributes to the literature on autoscopic hallucinations in patients with schizophrenia.
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spelling pubmed-79930622021-03-29 Autoscopic Hallucinations in an African American Female Patient With Schizophrenia Gajaram, Ganeya Lake, Tiffiney Nguyen, Dung Sangha, Sukhjeet Jolayemi, Ayodeji Cureus Psychiatry Autoscopic hallucinations are rare phenomena, with a handful of cases reported in patients with comorbidities and only one in a patient with schizophrenia. This case report discusses a 25-year-old African American female with schizophrenia and auditory hallucinations who presented with autoscopic hallucinations. The patient was interviewed on three separate occasions, her medical chart was consulted, a head computed tomography (CT) was performed, and her serum and urine laboratory values were monitored. Her head CT was normal, and her laboratory values were unremarkable. This case report contributes to the literature on autoscopic hallucinations in patients with schizophrenia. Cureus 2021-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7993062/ /pubmed/33786219 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13510 Text en Copyright © 2021, Gajaram et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Gajaram, Ganeya
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Nguyen, Dung
Sangha, Sukhjeet
Jolayemi, Ayodeji
Autoscopic Hallucinations in an African American Female Patient With Schizophrenia
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title_fullStr Autoscopic Hallucinations in an African American Female Patient With Schizophrenia
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title_short Autoscopic Hallucinations in an African American Female Patient With Schizophrenia
title_sort autoscopic hallucinations in an african american female patient with schizophrenia
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7993062/
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