New Hampshire: A study suggests that some people with schizophrenia may also suffer from a rare visual condition in which people’s faces appear horribly distorted.
This condition is called prosopometamorphopsia (PMO). In this, the schizophrenic patient sees the facial features of others as distorted.
According to media reports, American researchers said that people suffering from PMO often have trouble looking at other people’s faces. However, the researchers also said that fortunately, in most cases, the condition only lasts for a few days or weeks, but some cases have been reported in which the condition can persist for years.
“We often see many people with PMO being diagnosed with schizophrenia by psychiatrists and prescribed antipsychotics,” said Brad Dushine, a professor of psychiatry and psychiatry at Dartmouth University in the US and senior author of the study. But they do not take into consideration the important issue which is related to the visual system.
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