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J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatr. · Apr 2012
ReviewVisual hallucinations in the differential diagnosis of parkinsonism.
- Kelly Bertram and David R Williams.
- Neurology Department, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatr. 2012 Apr 1; 83 (4): 448452448-52.
AbstractVisual hallucinations (VH) occur commonly in Parkinson's disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) but are reported much less frequently in other neurodegenerative causes of parkinsonism, such as progressive supranuclear palsy, multiple system atrophy and corticobasal degeneration syndrome. This clinical sign may be helpful when considering the differential diagnosis of patients with parkinsonism. The observation that VH may be specific to Lewy body pathology probably reflects a greater vulnerability of the visual systems to PD and DLB neurodegeneration compared with other diseases. Topographic differences in pathology are probably the major factor producing VH in Lewy body diseases, rather than neurophysiological changes that are specific to α-synuclein protein accumulation. VH correlate with pathology in the limbic system and more specifically the amygdale that is frequently affected in PD and DLB but relatively preserved in other forms of parkinsonism often misdiagnosed as PD. In this review, the published frequencies of VH in these different conditions are compared to put into context the notion of VH as a clinical clue to underlying Lewy body pathology.
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