Charles Bonnet Syndrome and Other Visual Hallucinations

This book examines Charles Bonnet Syndrome and other visual hallucinations beyond the basic neuroscience concepts by providing the reader with a prevailing clinically applicable overview. It is a practical guide for those clinicians assessing patients who present with visual hallucinations and require additional evaluation to make a diagnosis and helps the clinician to formulate a clear management approach. In addition, there is a useful narrative section with multiple case analyses that assists clinicians, current patients, and their caregivers to understand how others have personally dealt with these problems and which treatment modality has worked best for them.

Key Features:

• Discusses medical, surgical, optical and psychological treatment plans.
• Appeals to practising neuro-ophthalmologists, ophthalmologists, optometrists, low vision specialists, neurologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, occupational/physical therapists and rehabilitation counsellors.
• Uses multiple clinical cases and scenarios as illustrative examples.
• Uses current technology to illustrate visual hallucinations as seen by patients.
• Can be used as a teaching tool for the patient and their caregiver.

Leonid Skorin, Jr.

Dr. Leonid Skorin, Jr. is meritoriously retired from the Mayo Clinic Health System in Albert Lea and Austin, MN where he was a Consultant in the Department of Surgery, Community Division of Ophthalmology and was an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science in Rochester, MN.

Dr. Skorin completed his OD at the Illinois College of Optometry and his DO at the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. He did his medical/surgical internship in Tulsa, OK and his ophthalmology residency at Michigan State University/Metropolitan Hospital. He did a neuro-ophthalmology fellowship at the University of Illinois Eye & Ear Infirmary.

Dr. Skorin is a Past-President of the Minnesota Osteopathic Medical Society. He is a Costin Institute Scholar in osteopathic medical education and received the Presidential Achievement Certificate for his medical and surgical mission work in Ukraine from the American Osteopathic College of Ophthalmology. He has presented over 700 invited and named lectures throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, England, Germany and Ukraine. These included presentations at various optometry and osteopathic medical colleges. He has served as the Director and Chair of Continuing Medical Education at the Mayo Clinic Health System - Albert Lea, Minnesota Osteopathic Medical Society and the American Osteopathic College of Ophthalmology. He has several hundred scientific publications including various textbook chapters. He is the Co-Editor and Co-Author of seven ophthalmic textbooks. He has served as a reviewer, columnist, member of the Board of Consultants for various professional journals and as both the Editor-In-Chief and the International Editor-In-Chief for the Clinical & Surgical Journal of Ophthalmology. In 2006 he was awarded the Distinguished Clinician of the Year Award from the Mayo Clinic Health System - Albert Lea. In 2016 he was named Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences NP/PA Emergency Medicine Fellowship Program - Educator of the Year. He has trained osteopathic ophthalmology residents at the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine and was a preceptor for osteopathic medical and optometry students. In 2017 the American Osteopathic College of Ophthalmology awarded him the Governor's Achievement Certificate.

Dr. Skorin completed the Mayo Clinic/University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management Leadership Development Program in 2010 and a Master of Science in Medical Education Leadership through the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2011. He completed the American Osteopathic Association Health Policy Fellowship in 2012. Dr. Skorin is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry and the American Osteopathic College of Ophthalmology.

Currently, Dr. Skorin teaches ophthalmology track courses at several osteopathic medical colleges, continues to present lectures and hands-on wet-labs at medical and optometry conferences and is the medical director and board member of the Charles Bonnet Syndrome non-profit support group, Mary Carmel’s Light.

Gary M. Cusick

Dr. Cusick is a Clinical Psychologist in Louisville Kentucky. His degrees and adult work have focused on working with persons with disabilities. Degrees include Masters in Rehabilitation Counselling from the University of Kentucky, and Doctor of Philosophy in Rehabilitation Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His clinical work has included nursing home, rehabilitation hospital, and telehealth psychology clients.

His first experience with Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS) came while he worked at the Charles W. McDowell Blind Rehabilitation Center in Louisville. Now retired but still licensed, he works with persons with CBS individually and hosting a weekly support group.