Hallucinations - Therapy
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Combination of electroconvulsive therapy with skin graft surgery for a schizophrenic patient with burns.

30 Aug 2009 We report on the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) on a patient with schizophrenia immediately after skin graft surgery for extensive burns. The patient was 22 years old and had been burned in more than 33% of his body because of a suicide ... Read more...

[Improvement of peduncular hallucinosis by surgical resection and carbamazepin administration in a young patient with pineocytoma]

29 Jun 2009 Peduncular hallucinosis is a rare phenomenon characterized by visual hallucination consisting of vivid, colored image of people, animals, scenes or geometric patterns. In most of the cases the hallucination is accompanied by sleeping disorder, and ... Read more...

[Biological correlates of prefrontal activating and temporoparietal inhibiting treatment with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)]

14 Jun 2009 Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a tool that enables clinicians and neuroscientists to modulate cortical activity in a non-invasive way. High-frequency rTMS has predominantly an activating effect on the stimulated brain region ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Hallucinations - Therapy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Combination of electroconvulsive therapy with skin graft surgery for a schizophrenic patient with burns. 30 Aug 2009
• Cases: Charles Bonnet syndrome: visual loss and hallucinations. 2 Aug 2009
• Hallucinations associated with modafinil treatment for narcolepsy. 30 Jul 2009
• Cognitive behavior therapy for psychosis: where have we been and where are we going? 15 Jul 2009
• A case of beta lactam-induced visual hallucination. Jul 2009
• On the neurobiology of hallucinations. 29 Jun 2009
• [Improvement of peduncular hallucinosis by surgical resection and carbamazepin administration in a young patient with pineocytoma] 29 Jun 2009
• [Biological correlates of prefrontal activating and temporoparietal inhibiting treatment with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)] 14 Jun 2009
• Two-day treatment of auditory hallucinations by high frequency rTMS guided by cerebral imaging: a 6 month follow-up pilot study. 5 Jun 2009
• Delusions, illusions and hallucinations in epilepsy: 2. Complex phenomena and psychosis. 10 May 2009
• [Musical hallucinations] 30 Apr 2009
• Relating therapy for people who hear voices: a case series. 29 Apr 2009
• Avoiding false negatives: are some auditory hallucinations an evolved design flaw? 15 Apr 2009
• Psychiatry and oppression: a personal account of compulsory admission and medical treatment. 7 Apr 2009
• Effect of augmentatory repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia: randomized controlled study. 30 Mar 2009
• Cognitive and meta-cognitive dimensions of psychoses. 27 Feb 2009
• Delirious mania and malignant catatonia: a report of 3 cases and review. 4 Feb 2009
• Integration through relatedness in the conversational model: a case study. 30 Jan 2009
• Visual hallucinations in eye disease. 30 Jan 2009
• Subthalamic nucleus stimulation does not cause deterioration of preexisting hallucinations in Parkinson's disease patients. 26 Jan 2009

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Technical information about 'Hallucinations'

Definition: Subjectively experienced sensations in the absence of an appropriate stimulus, but which are regarded by the individual as real. They may be of organic origin or associated with MENTAL DISORDERS.

Descriptor UI: D006212

Alternative terms: Hallucinations; Hallucination; Hallucinations, Visual; Hallucination, Visual; Visual Hallucination; Visual Hallucinations; Hallucination of Body Sensation; Body Sensation Hallucination; Body Sensation Hallucinations; Hallucinations, Auditory; Auditory Hallucination; Auditory Hallucinations; Hallucination, Auditory; Hallucinations, Dissociative; Dissociative Hallucination; Dissociative Hallucinations; Hallucination, Dissociative; Hallucinations, Elementary; Elementary Hallucination; Elementary Hallucinations; Hallucination, Elementary; Hallucinations, Formed, of People; Hallucinations, Gustatory; Gustatory Hallucination; Gustatory Hallucinations; Hallucination, Gustatory; Hallucinations, Hypnagogic; Hallucination, Hypnagogic; Hypnagogic Hallucination; Hypnagogic Hallucinations; Hallucinations, Hypnapompic; Hallucination, Hypnapompic; Hypnapompic Hallucination; Hypnapompic Hallucinations; Hallucinations, Internal Body Sensation; Hallucinations, Kinesthetic; Hallucination, Kinesthetic; Kinesthetic Hallucination; Kinesthetic Hallucinations; Hallucinations, Mood Congruent; Hallucination, Mood Congruent; Mood Congruent Hallucination; Mood Congruent Hallucinations; Hallucinations, Mood Incongruent; Hallucination, Mood Incongruent; Mood Incongruent Hallucination; Mood Incongruent Hallucinations; Hallucinations, Olfactory; Hallucination, Olfactory; Olfactory Hallucination; Olfactory Hallucinations; Hallucinations, Organic; Hallucination, Organic; Organic Hallucination; Organic Hallucinations; Hallucinations, Reflex; Hallucination, Reflex; Reflex Hallucination; Reflex Hallucinations; Hallucinations, Sensory; Hallucination, Sensory; Sensory Hallucination; Sensory Hallucinations; Hallucinations, Somatic; Hallucination, Somatic; Somatic Hallucination; Somatic Hallucinations; Hallucinations, Tactile; Hallucination, Tactile; Tactile Hallucination; Tactile Hallucinations; Hallucinations, Verbal Auditory; Auditory Hallucination, Verbal; Auditory Hallucinations, Verbal; Hallucination, Verbal Auditory; Verbal Auditory Hallucination; Verbal Auditory Hallucinations; Hallucinations, Visual, Formed; Hallucinations, Visual, Unformed;

Related Mesh Headings: Hallucinogens;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.597.606.762.300; C23.888.592.604.764.300; F01.700.750.300;

Technical Notes: /chem ind: consider also HALLUCINOGENS