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Mirtazapine for Charles Bonnet Syndrome
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Dear Editor: Charles Bonnet syndrome (CBS) is characterized by complex visual hallucinations in psychologically normal people; it is usually seen in elderly people in the context of ocular pathology causing visual deterioration (1). The main hypothesis is that these hallucinations represent release phenomena attributable to deafferentation of the visual association areas of the cerebral cortex that leads to a form of phantom vision. Most intriguingly, unlike visual hallucinations associated w...
