|Articles|December 3, 2012
- Psychiatric Times Vol 27 No 12
- Volume 27
- Issue 12
Differential Diagnosis of Psychotic Symptoms: Medical “Mimics”
Author(s)Oliver Freudenreich, MD
The number of medical diseases that can present with psychotic symptoms (ie, delusions, hallucinations) is legion. A thorough differential diagnosis of possible medical and toxic causes of psychosis is necessary to avoid the mistaken attribution of psychosis to a psychiatric disorder.
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Crude exogenous organic damage of the most varying kind can produce acute psychotic clinical pictures of a basically uniform kind.
Karl Bonhoeffer, 19091
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