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Visual hallucinations induced by deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease
N J Diederich1, F Alesch, C G Goetz
1Department of Neuroscience, Hospitalier de Luxembourg.
Clinical Neuropharmacology
|January 12, 2001
Abstract:
We report a patient with idiopathic Parkinson's disease who underwent bilateral deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the nucleus subthalamicus (STN) and developed visual hallucinations (VH) while taking no medications only when the DBS was turned on. The hallucinations resolved when the stimulator was turned off. The phenomenology and the prompt response to clozapine suggest that DBS-induced VH mimic pharmacologically-induced VH.