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Palinopsia Posing as a Psychotic Depression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Todd J. Gates ,
Susan J. Stagno  and
A. Dale Gulledge
Todd J. Gates
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry
Susan J. Stagno*
Affiliation:
Section of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
A. Dale Gulledge
Affiliation:
Section of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
*
∗The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106
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Abstract

The experience of visual images appearing as well-described persons and objects, either familiar or unfamiliar to the patient, has frequently prompted psychiatric evaluation for apparent psychotic or schizophrenic disorders. A case of apparent psychotic depression is reported, in which the symptoms were due to the patient's experience of palinoptic images. Answers to particular questions in the initial interview can obviate the need for psychiatric consultation, as various consistencies have been reported in the non-psychiatric symptom of palinopsia.

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Brief Reports
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 153 , Issue 3 , September 1988 , pp. 391 - 393
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988 

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