Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a common  serious long-term mental health condition that affects 5 in 1000 in the UK. It causes a range of different psychological symptoms; hallucinations, delusions, muddled...

Mental Health

Mental health, although not being as obvious as physical health, is very important, causing great unhappiness to those affected, causing additional physical health problems and costing the economy m...

Hallucinations of musical notation

Professor of neurology, physician, and author Oliver Sacks M.D. has outlined case studies of hallucinations of musical notation, and commented on the neural basis of such hallucinations, in a new pape...

Hallucinations Of Musical Notation: New Paper For Neurology Journal Brain by Oliver Sacks

Professor of neurology, physician, and author Oliver Sacks M.D. has outlined case studies of hallucinations of musical notation, and commented on the neural basis of such hallucinations, in a new pape...

Professor of neurology outlines case studies of hallucinations of musical notation

Professor of neurology, physician, and author Oliver Sacks M.D. has outlined case studies of hallucinations of musical notation, and commented on the neural basis of such hallucinations, in a new pape...

ACE Inhibitors Linked to Hallucinations (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- Elderly patients with memory problems who suddenly have visual hallucinations may need to stop taking ACE inhibitors, researchers suggested.

ACE Inhibitors Linked to Hallucinations in Elderly (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- Elderly patients with memory problems who suddenly have visual hallucinations may need to stop taking ACE inhibitors, researchers suggested.

Hallucinations of musical notation: New paper for neurology journal Brain by Oliver Sacks

(Oxford University Press) Professor of neurology, physician, and author Oliver Sacks M.D. has outlined case studies of hallucinations of musical notation, and commented on the neural basis of such hal...

Hallucinations, delusions linked to poorer outcomes in general population

The occurrence of hallucinations and delusions is associated with poorer mental health outcomes in the nonclinical general population, researchers report.

See This: Hallucinations with Oliver Sacks, November 9, 8 P.M. EST [Live]

Hearing and seeing things that aren’t there is more common than you might think. As part of their series Science & Story, our friends at the World Science Festival are bringing together ne...

Frightening visual hallucinations: atypical presentation of Charles Bonnet syndrome triggered by the Black Saturday bushfires.

Charles Bonnet syndrome (CBS) is a disorder in which psychologically normal people, often with vision impairment, experience complex visual hallucinations. The hallucinations are purely visual and do...

Olfactory hallucinations in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder: A phenomenological survey.

Olfactory hallucinations (OHs), so it has been argued, are prognostic of a poorer outcome, are unpleasant, and cannot be well explained within current theoretical accounts of hallucinations. We examin...

Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors (AChEI's) for the treatment of visual hallucinations in schizophrenia: A review of the literature.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Visual hallucinations occur in various neurological diseases, but are most prominent in Lewy body dementia, Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia. The lifetime prevalence of visu...

Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors (AChEI's) for the treatment of visual hallucinations in schizophrenia: A case report.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Visual hallucinations are commonly seen in various neurological and psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia. Current models of visual processing and studies in diseases inc...

Visual Memory Errors in Parkinson's Disease Patient With Visual Hallucinations.

ABSTRACT The occurrences of visual hallucinations seem to be more prevalent in low light and hallucinators tend to be more prone to false positive type errors in memory tasks. Here we investigated whe...