Open AccessVisual Hallucinations in Mania
Author(s) -
Arindam Chakrabarty,
M S Reddy
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
indian journal of psychological medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 0975-1564
pISSN - 0253-7176
DOI - 10.4103/0253-7176.85399
Subject(s) - mania , headaches , visual hallucination , bipolar disorder , psychiatry , psychology , migraine , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , mood disorders , mood , medicine , anxiety
Visual hallucinations occur in a wide variety of neurological and psychiatric disorders, including toxic disturbances, drug withdrawal syndromes, focal central nervous system lesions, migraine headaches, blindness, schizophrenia, and psychotic mood disorders. Visual hallucinations are generally assumed to characteristically reflect organic disorders and are very rare in affective disorders. Here, we present a case of visual hallucinations in a young female with bipolar illness during the manic phase.