Disorders of Perception Flashcards
Disorders of Perception
Hallucinations
Illusions
Perception of non-existing stimulus
Hallucinations
Types of Hallucination
Visual
Auditory
Olfactory
Tactile
Gustatory
Normal (physiological) [Hallucination]
Hypna-gogic
Hypna-bombic
Pathological [hallucination]
Primary psychiatric disorders
* Schizophrenia
* Rarely in depression, mania, paranoid disorder.
Organic mental disorders
* Delirium, Drug dependence, TL epilepsy, Brain tumors. Encephalitis
False perception of an external stimulus
Illusions
Types of Illusion
Visual – Auditory – Olfactory – Tactile – Gustatory
Physiological (Illusion)
Intense emotions, change of set, lack of perceptual clarity
Pathological (Illusion)
Primary mental disorders
* Schizophrenia
Organic mental disorders
* Delirium
* Epilepsy
* Brain tumors
* Encephalitis