|Articles|December 3, 2012

Psychiatric Times

  • Psychiatric Times Vol 27 No 12
  • Volume 27
  • Issue 12

Differential Diagnosis of Psychotic Symptoms: Medical “Mimics”

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.

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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