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Table 2 Semiological characteristics of the psychotic episodes in 10 adult NP-C patients

From: Psychiatric burden in a cohort of adults with Niemann Pick type C disease: from psychotic symptoms to frontal lobe behavioral disorders

Psychosis

Delusions

Other associated symptoms

Patient ID

age at psychosis

Psychosis at onset

Age at Miglustat (Mgst)

Psychotic relapse

Age at last follow-up

Follow-up of psychotic patients after diagnosis

Types of delusions

Systematization

Visual hallucinations

Auditory hallucinations

Consciously perceived Hallucinations

Delirium

Agitation

Derealisation

Anosognosia

Discordance

1

23

 − 

22

 − 

36

NA

None

 − 

1

0

 − 

 − 

 + 

 − 

 − 

 + 

2

18

 − 

22

 − 

34

12

Persecution, megalomania

 − 

0

0

NA

 + 

 + 

 + 

 + 

 + 

3

23

 − 

23

 − 

32

9

Persecution, culpability

 − 

1

1

NA

 + 

 + 

 + 

 + 

 − 

4

16

 + 

32

 − 

38

6

Persecution, prejudice, culpability

 − 

1

1

 − 

 + 

 + 

 − 

 + 

 + 

5

16

 + 

No Mgst

 + 

40

16

Persecution

 − 

1

1

 − 

 + 

 + 

NA

 + 

 + 

6

18

 + 

No Mgst

 + 

50

17

Persecution*

 − 

NA

1

 − 

 + 

 + 

 + 

 + 

 + 

7

21

 − 

23

 − 

24

1

Persecution

 − 

1

0

 − 

 + 

 + 

 + 

 + 

 + 

8

20

 + 

25

 + (toxic use)

33

8

Persecution, megalomania, filiation, mystic

 − 

0

1

 − 

 − 

 + 

 − 

 + 

 + 

9

25

 + 

27

 + 

36

9

None

 − 

0

1

 − 

 + 

 + 

 + 

 + 

 + 

10

30

 + 

No Mgst

 + 

57

16

Persecution, jealousy, prejudice, culpability

 − 

0

1

NA

 + 

 + 

 + 

 + 

 + 

Means or percentage

21.00

60 (6/10)

24.86

50 (5/10)

38.00

10.44

 

0 (0/10)

55 (5/9)

70 (7/10)

0 (0/7)

80 (8/10)

100 (10/10)

66 (6/9)

90 (9/10)

90 (9/10)

Associated thymic symptoms

Associated behavoural symptoms

Psychotropic treatments

Depressive symptoms

Anxiety symptoms

Emotional Hyper reactivity

Excessive Spending

Impaired social cognition

Affective blunting

Desinhibition

Social retreat

Apathy

Stereotypies

Number of treatments prior to diagnosis

number of treatments at last follow-up

AP efficacy

AP Intolerance

 + 

 + 

 + 

 − 

 + 

 + 

 − 

 + 

 + 

NA

0 (0)

0 (0)

NR

NR

 + 

 + 

 + 

 + 

 + 

 + 

 + 

 − 

 − 

NA

5 (2)

2 (0)

0

NA

 + 

 + 

 + 

 − 

NA

 − 

 + 

 + 

 + 

NA

3 (1)

2 (0)

1

NA

 + 

 + 

 + 

 + 

NA

NA

 + 

 + 

 + 

NA

13 (5)

5 (2)

0

NA

 − 

 − 

 − 

 − 

 + 

 − 

 + 

 + 

 + 

 + 

5 (2)

4 (2)

0

NA

 + 

NA

 + 

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

 + 

NA

13 (4)

NA

0

NA

 + 

 + 

 + 

 + 

 + 

 + 

 − 

 + 

 + 

 + 

4 (2)

1 (1)

0

NA

 − 

 − 

 − 

 + 

 + 

 + 

 + 

 + 

 + 

 + 

8 (6)

2 (2)

0

0

 + 

 − 

 − 

 + 

 + 

 − 

 + 

 + 

 + 

 + 

9 (5)

NA

0

1

 + 

NA

 + 

 − 

 + 

 − 

 + 

 + 

 + 

NA

12 (6)

NA

0

NA

80 (8/10)

66 (6/9)

70 (7/10)

55 (5/9)

100 (7/7)

50 (4/8)

77 (7/9)

88 (8/9)

90 (9/10)

100 (4/4)

7,2 (3,3)

2,3 (1)

11 (1/9)

50 (1/2)

  1. *Data for jealousy, prejudice, mystic and culpability NA
  2. Mgst Miglsutat, AP Anti-psychotic
  3. In the two first columns of the “psychotropic treatments”, the number in brackets refers specifically to anti-psychotic treatment (that are considered to be a sub-group of psychotropic treatments), whereas psychotropic treatments include also antidepressant, anxiolytics, and mood stabilizers (see Additional file 2: Table S2)