["ZOOM effect". The TV sign in patients with dementia: Is there an increased incidence during pandemia due to a rise in isolation and virtuality?] / "Efecto ZOOM". El signo de la TV en pacientes con demencia: ¿Hubo un aumento en la incidencia durante la pandemia debido al mayor aislamiento y la virtualidad?
Vertex
; XXXIII(155): 72-74, 2022 Mar.
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| ID: mdl-35438688
ABSTRACT
Delusional misidentification syndromes are misperceptions of external stimuli with an associated belief or elaboration that is held with delusional intensity. In the TV sign patient believes that the observed television events are occurring in a real three-dimensional space. It is one of the very rare forms of delusional misidentification syndrome in patients withdementia.Wereport7patientswithcognitiveimpairmentcaseswhohavepresentedTVsignduringtheCOVID-19 pandemic. Two patients had Alzheimer's dementia type diagnosis, 1 atypical Alzheimer dementia, 1 vascular dementia and 3 of them had mixed etiology (2 Alzheimer dementia + vascular and 1 dementia with Lewy bodies + vascular). Three presented other psychotic symptoms and 1 patient also had Capgras syndrome. These 7 cases series raise the possibility of an increase incidence of TV sign in patients with dementia during pandemia triggered by the rise in expo- sure to screen devices and a social isolation during this period.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Transtornos Psicóticos
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Isolamento Social
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Delusões
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Doença de Alzheimer
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Realidade Virtual
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Incidence_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Screening_studies
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Humans
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Es
Ano de publicação:
2022
Tipo de documento:
Article