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While the majority of these children quickly recover from their symptoms, a substantial percentage experience persistent symptoms or a fluctuating course. Due to the lack of efficacy studies of specific treatment protocols, diagnostic work-up and treatment suffer from a high degree of uncertainty. Differentiating dissociative visual loss from physical illness requires special expertise. The uncertainty of ophthalmologists and the other specialists involved in dealing with this clinical condition often delays the specialised treatment and may also trigger inadequate therapy with the iatrogenic risk of harming the patient. This article primarily describes the disorder-specific psychiatric diagnostic as well as the somatic differential diagnostic work-up and outlines the therapeutic principles of dissociative visual loss.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1055\/a-1617-3193","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,18]],"date-time":"2021-10-18T23:30:53Z","timestamp":1634599853000},"page":"1084-1091","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Dissociative Visual Loss in Children and Adolescents"],"prefix":"10.1055","volume":"238","author":[{"given":"Romuald","family":"Brunner","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Klinik und Poliklinik f\u00fcr Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie, Universit\u00e4t Regensburg, Deutschland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6353-2651","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Herbert","family":"J\u00e4gle","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Klinik und Poliklinik f\u00fcr Augenheilkunde, Universit\u00e4tsklinikum Regensburg, Deutschland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Stephanie","family":"Kandsperger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Klinik und Poliklinik f\u00fcr Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie, Universit\u00e4t Regensburg, Deutschland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"194","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","volume-title":"Internationale Klassifikation psychischer St\u00f6rungen. 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