Hallucinations
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

The psychotomimetic effects of short-term sensory deprivation.

29 Sep 2009 People experiencing sensory deprivation often report perceptual disturbances such as hallucinations, especially over extended periods of time. However, there is little evidence concerning short-term sensory deprivation and whether its effects differ ... Read more...

From stroboscope to dream machine: a history of flicker-induced hallucinations.

Sep 2009 When early neurophysiologists, like William Grey Walter (1910-1977), started using intermittent photic driving in electroencephalography, they were struck by a wide range of visual hallucinations that were reported. In current neuroscience, the ... Read more...

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...

Latest indexed articles for 'Hallucinations'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The psychotomimetic effects of short-term sensory deprivation. 29 Sep 2009
• From stroboscope to dream machine: a history of flicker-induced hallucinations. Sep 2009
• Combination of electroconvulsive therapy with skin graft surgery for a schizophrenic patient with burns. 30 Aug 2009
• Routes to psychotic symptoms: trauma, anxiety and psychosis-like experiences. 20 Aug 2009
• Cases: Charles Bonnet syndrome: visual loss and hallucinations. 2 Aug 2009
• Hallucinations associated with modafinil treatment for narcolepsy. 30 Jul 2009
• Is elevated striatal dopamine function a prodromal sign of schizophrenia? 30 Jul 2009
• HOMER1 promoter analysis in Parkinson's disease: association study with psychotic symptoms. 29 Jul 2009
• Left auditory cortex gamma synchronization and auditory hallucination symptoms in schizophrenia. 18 Jul 2009
• Cognitive behavior therapy for psychosis: where have we been and where are we going? 15 Jul 2009
• The impact of personality characteristics on the clinical expression in neurodegenerative disorders--a review. 14 Jul 2009
• [Acute psychosis caused by co-amoxiclav] 6 Jul 2009
• Ictal hallucination and hemispheric specialization: findings from 217 cases with a unilateral epileptic focus. 3 Jul 2009
• A case of beta lactam-induced visual hallucination. Jul 2009
• Charles Bonnet syndrome: case presentation and literature review. 29 Jun 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
• Music of the hemispheres. 29 Jun 2009
• Pseudohallucinations versus true hallucinations in prodromal psychosis: does it really matter? 29 Jun 2009
• Olfactory hallucinations as a manifestation of hidden rhinosinusitis. 26 Jun 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

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Related Mesh Headings: Hallucinogens;

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

Technical Notes: /chem ind: consider also HALLUCINOGENS