Eponymous syndrome

Question 1

Recurrent complex hallucinations (visual or auditory), occurring in clear consciousness. BG of visual impairment (Macular degeneration most common).

Insight is usually preserved. Occurs in the absence of any other significant neuropsychiatric disturbance.

Answer 1

Charles-Bonnet syndrome

Question 2

Risk factors for Charles-Bonnet syndrome

Answer 2

Advanced age
Peripheral visual impairment
Social isolation
Sensory deprivation
Early cognitive impairment

Question 3

Condition also known as erotomania.
A paranoid delusion where a single woman, believes that a famous person is in love with her.

Answer 3

De Clerambault’s syndrome

Question 4

Pathological jealousy where a person is convinced their partner is cheating on them without any real proof.

This is accompanied by socially unacceptable behaviour linked to these claims.

Answer 4

Othello’s syndrome

Question 5

Memory disorder seen in alcoholics.
Thiamine deficiency damages the mammillary bodies of the hypothalamus and the medial thalamus.

Features:
- inability to acquire new memories
- retrograde amnesia
- confabulation

Answer 5

Korsakoff’s syndrome

Question 6

Patient believes that they (or a part of their body) is either dead or non-existent.

Often patients stop eating or drinking as they deem it not necessary.

Associated with severe depression and psychotic disorders.

Answer 6

Cotard syndrome

Question 9

Korsakoffs syndrome occurs if which other eponymous syndrome is left untreated?

Answer 9

Wernicke’s Encephalopathy