The Psychiatric Symptomatology of Visual Snow Syndrome

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​