The Dutch woman suffering from rare disease instead of people saw dragons, Live Science reports.
The woman applied to an outpatient psychiatric clinic, complaining about unusual visual hallucinations. Looking at people, their faces turned into dragonfly images. The patient also noted that the dragonfly faces appeared spontaneously, even in the absence of other people, which was anxious and hindered his social contacts.
He added that in his eyes the human faces looked normal at first, but then he "blackened, and a long, sharpened ears and elongated snout." The woman claimed that such monsters were accompanied by childhood.
Doctors conducted a comprehensive patient examination, including blood tests, electroencephalography and neurological testing. All indicators were normal, but magnetic resonance imagination revealed several injuries in the lens. Such damage may be related to blood vessels with micro-agents and is often associated with cognitive disorders, including attention and memory problems that are typical of schizophrenia.
Experts have assumed that hallucinations arise in the areas of the brain, which are responsible for the perception of faces and colors, in particular, in the abdominal necklace, not typical electrical activity. According to doctors, the detected injuries could have existed since birth and be a result of a short hypoxy in Perinatal.
The patient was diagnosed with a probitized prosopomptamorphopsy, a rare disorder, in which case human faces are perceived in distorted form. Thanks to the resulting therapy, the woman noted its condition improvements, work stability and social relations.
Translation of: Euromedia24.com
