Psychiatric symptoms are frequent in idiopathic intracranial hypertension patients

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is a rare disease with an incidence rate of 0.5-2.0/100,000/year. Characteristic symptoms are headache and several degrees of visual impairment. Psychiatric symptoms in association with IIH are usually poorly described and underestimated. In this study, we evaluated IIH subjects to determine the association with psychiatric symptoms. We evaluated thirty consecutive patients with IIH submitted to...