Emotional and physical disorder interaction on glaucoma patients

• Main Authors: Ai-Bao Zhou, Hong-Yun Yue, Xian-Cui Liu, Xiao-Yong Lu, Yan Yuan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Press of International Journal of Ophthalmology (IJO PRESS) 2019-07-01
• Series: Guoji Yanke Zazhi
• Subjects: emotion/psychological barriers; anxiety/depression; visual field; mind and body interaction; glaucoma
• Online Access: http://ies.ijo.cn/cn_publish/2019/8/201908012.pdf

Progressive reduction of visual field is the main feature in glaucoma patients.The paranoid personality and anxiety/depression characteristics of glaucona patients run through the pathogenesis and progression of the disease. The correlation between different visual fields and various cognitive components may lead to cognitive changes or different degrees of emotional disorders in the process of visual field impairment, while the emotional/psychological disorders in glaucoma patients with anxiety/depression as the main characteristics have negative effects on the range of peripheral vision and visual acuity. As a result of the interaction between body and mind, the speed and degree of visual impairment of glaucoma have characteristic changes. "Psychogenic error" or "functional error" will lead to the misjudgment of pathological damage of visual function. Attention to the interaction between mood disorders and visual field impairment in glaucoma patients has promoted the development of combined intervention strategies of body and mind on the course of glaucoma.