Chunk #31 — Long-range connectivity — Are white matter diseases more likely to specifically trigger psychosis, or is this feature common whatever the type of encephalopathy?
Nevertheless, these psychotic symptoms are not specific to all WM diseases. Indeed, persecutory delusions (nonbizarre) are also characteristic of psychosis in acquired immundc deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and normal-pressure hydrocephalus in Binswanger's disease, perhaps in relation to frontal lobe involvement.85,86
