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Sensory deprivation leading to late onset psychosis

Author(s) -

Sandeep Grover,

Swapnajeet Sahoo,

Pradyumna

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

journal of geriatric mental health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2395-3322

pISSN - 2348-9995

DOI - 10.4103/2348-9995.195676

Subject(s) - sensory deprivation , psychosis , anxiety , audiology , sensory system , perception , psychology , depression (economics) , psychiatry , visual hallucination , dementia , medicine , neuroscience , disease , economics , macroeconomics

Sensory deprivation is understood as diminution or absence of perceptual experiences to the usual external stimuli. Sensory deprivation in elderly is reported to be associated with depression, anxiety, psychosis, dementia, etc. In this report, we present the case of an 84-year- elderly man who developed auditory hallucination and after 1 year of onset of hearing difficulties. He was managed with quetiapine, with which he showed significant improvement

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