Psychiatry of diencephalon damages. A case report

The diencephalon syndrome due to head injury in a 60-year-old woman is reported. The dicenphalon syndrome of the patient offered a variety of productive psychic and somatopsychic symptoms without reduction of intelligence; these included optic and acoustic hallucinations, delusions, cenesthesic hallucinations, disturbances of body schema and distinct functional disorders of the vegetative system. Autopsy findings of the brain were obtained in the 1.5 years up to her death. The problems of diencephalon syndrome related with suspected organic bases of schizophrenia and rhythmicity of diencephalogenic impulse reduction are discussed.