Seeing again: treatment of functional visual loss.
conversion disorder
functional neurological disorder
medically unexplained
non-organic
psychogenic
visual loss
Journal
Practical neurology
ISSN: 1474-7766
Titre abrégé: Pract Neurol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101130961
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Apr 2019
Apr 2019
Historique:
accepted:
28
10
2018
entrez:
16
3
2019
pubmed:
16
3
2019
medline:
13
4
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
There is very little published literature on treatment strategies for functional visual loss. We present two people with long duration of functional visual loss who achieved complete recovery with a novel combination of therapeutic approaches. These included: (1) the clinician being transparent regarding positive signs such as optokinetic nystagmus, in order to persuade family members of the diagnosis, (2) regularly positively acknowledging everyday events that indicated visual ability, (3) using occipital transcranial magnetic stimulation to induce phosphenes as an artificial temporary visual experience and (4) using hypnotherapy to promote visual recovery. We discuss these individual therapeutic approaches in further detail including their background and rationale and include patients' reflection on their treatment experiences.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30872460
pii: practneurol-2018-002092
doi: 10.1136/practneurol-2018-002092
doi:
Types de publication
Case Reports
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
168-172Informations de copyright
© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Competing interests: None declared.