After a stroke the patient may develop a number of neuropsychiatric disorders including hallucinations and/or psychosis.
Synonym: poststroke hallucination delusion syndrome
Clinical features:
(1) The patient has the onset of hallucinations, delusions, paranoia and/or frank psychosis during or after an acute stroke.
(2) The stroke usually involves the right hemisphere.
(3) The psychosis cannot be explained by other cause (pre-existing psychosis, adverse drug effect, drug or alcohol abuse).
