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An Unusual Presentation of Vivid Hallucinations

Visual hallucinations may present secondary to neurologic, psychologic, or physiologic disturbances. Certain features and characteristics of visual hallucination are often attributed to various brain regions; however, with a broad list of causes and multifaceted pathophysiology, it is often hard to...

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Autores principales: Degueure, Arielle, Fontenot, Andee, Husan, Ammar, Khan, Muhammad W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9237857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35774701
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25441
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description Visual hallucinations may present secondary to neurologic, psychologic, or physiologic disturbances. Certain features and characteristics of visual hallucination are often attributed to various brain regions; however, with a broad list of causes and multifaceted pathophysiology, it is often hard to accurately localize. Overlapping clinical presentations may be due to the pathology of brain interconnections, rather than isolated brain regions themselves. In this study, we discuss a case of isolated, complex visual hallucinations secondary to occipital seizures in the radiologic absence of an ischemic injury. We propose that a network-based localizing lesion is responsible for this unconventional presentation.
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spelling pubmed-92378572022-06-29 An Unusual Presentation of Vivid Hallucinations Degueure, Arielle Fontenot, Andee Husan, Ammar Khan, Muhammad W Cureus Medical Education Visual hallucinations may present secondary to neurologic, psychologic, or physiologic disturbances. Certain features and characteristics of visual hallucination are often attributed to various brain regions; however, with a broad list of causes and multifaceted pathophysiology, it is often hard to accurately localize. Overlapping clinical presentations may be due to the pathology of brain interconnections, rather than isolated brain regions themselves. In this study, we discuss a case of isolated, complex visual hallucinations secondary to occipital seizures in the radiologic absence of an ischemic injury. We propose that a network-based localizing lesion is responsible for this unconventional presentation. Cureus 2022-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9237857/ /pubmed/35774701 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25441 Text en Copyright © 2022, Degueure et al. https://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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