Secondary psychiatric syndromes

Cerebral or systemic disease can result in a number of different secondary psychiatric syndromes. Any of the following may occur -:

• Psychosis
• Mood disorder
• Change in personality
• Delusional disorder
• Organic hallucinosis – usual visual or auditory
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder

There are many possible underlying causes of secondary psychiatric syndromes. More common ones include substance misuse disorders, dementias and epilepsy.

Amended April 2008