The Psychiatric Symptomatology of Visual Snow Syndrome
Emma J. Solly Meaghan Clough Paige Foletta Owen B. White Joanne Fielding Conclusion: Psychiatric symptoms are highly prevalent in patients with VSS and are associated with increased visual symptom severity and reduced quality of life. Importantly, patients with lifelong VSS reported lower levels of distress and milder self-ratings of visual symptoms compared to patients with a later onset, while being equally likely to experience psychiatric symptoms. This suggests that the psychiatric symptoms of VSS are not solely due to distress caused by visual symptoms. While no consistently effective treatments are available for the visual symptomology of VSS, psychiatric symptoms offer an avenue of treatment that is likely to significantly improve patient quality of life and ability to cope with visual symptoms. Full article: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2021.703006/full I am absolutely thrilled to announce that with a global effort funds have been raised for VSS research to move forward at Monash University! More details will be coming, but I wanted to let all of our supporters and donors know that we did it! Big changes are ahead in the lives of Visual Snow sufferers!
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