Writing Assignment Paper about Charles Bonnet Syndrome

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Charles Bonnet Syndrome
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Abstract
Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CB) affects people who are visually impaired and cognitively normal. People with CBS experience vivid visual hallucinations or phantom images that worsen with age and visual impairment. The criterion for diagnosing CBS is to exclude those with psychiatric conditions and other issues like drugs and people living with CBS mostly know that the hallucinations are unreal. Loss in visual acuity is the most common characteristic for those with CBS and especially when there is age-related macular degeneration (ARMD). Similar those with eye diseases are more likely to develop CBS and this is diagnosed when they experience visual hallucinations in the absence of the neurological and psychiatric problems. Patients with CBS are reluctant to seek medical advice because of fear, but there is a need for more people to seek medical attention to improve health outcomes and the quality of life.
Introduction
Mentally healthy people with Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS), which is a nonpsychiatric disorder often experience complex visual hallucinations, and while patients with the disorder, mostly know that their visual experiences, the illusions or hallucinations are unreal. Typically, the hallucinations are pleasant, but can also be disturbing, even while explaining and witness hallucinations are difficult (Pang). People with Charles Bonnet Syndrome may experience well defined, organized and clear hallucinations, but cannot control them. Charles Bonnet Syndrome is more likely to affect people with poor vision and especially among the elderly, but the problem is often unrecognized and underreported (Pang). Increasingly, there is more research to understand the possible link between the syndrome and hallucinations and the way the brain receives information and processes images. The interaction of vision acuity among the elderly in the absence of psychological conditions and the presence of visual hallucinations, sensory impairment and deprivation ad cognitive impairment and deprivation is associated with the risk of Charles Bonnet Syndrome.
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Even though, patients CBS have normal intellectual functioning, there is likelihood of underreporting of CBS cases for fear that people will be labeled mentally ill (Siddiqui et al. 1). Visual hallucinations remain the primary symptom to diagnose the disorder in the absence of substance abuse, psychiatric diseases and sleep disturbance. Since CBS is a visual disturbance disorder and does not meet the diagnostic criteria for psychosis, but neurological, geriatric, psychiatric...