title: Organic psychosis: Insight into the biology of psychosis.
abstract: Psychotic symptoms--delusions, delusional misidentifications and hallucinations--are observed in a variety of organic or nonorganic conditions, and are, therefore, diagnostically nonspecific. Common patholophysiologic denominators of different organic diseases may offer insights into the origin of psychotic symptoms. This article reviews some of the clinical and neuroimaging findings in organic psychoses present in various organic disorders. It attempts to extract a number of hypotheses about underlying biologic factors contributing to the development of psychotic symptoms of organic origin.
authors.affiliation: Klinikum und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Technische Universität München, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Ismaningerstr. 2281675 München, Germany.
authors.forename: N T
authors.initials: NT
authors.lastname: Lautenschlager
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Förstl
mesh_terms: D001284:Atrophy / Q000473:pathology; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000523:psychology; D007562:Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / Q000473:pathology / Q000523:psychology; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000473:pathology / Q000523:psychology; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D005947:Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D006816:Huntington Disease / Q000473:pathology / Q000523:psychology; D020961:Lewy Body Disease / Q000473:pathology / Q000523:psychology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000523:psychology; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000473:pathology / Q000523:psychology; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D005947:Glucose