People with Charles Bonnet Syndrome, which involves visual hallucinations for people who have lost their sight, have had worsening symptoms during the pandemic, finds a study led by UCL researchers.

Hallucinations are unreal sensory experiences, such as hearing or seeing something that is not there. Any of our five senses (vision, hearing, taste, smell, touch) can be involved. Most often, when we ...

From 2019 to 2021, I experienced visual hallucinations: I saw people, plants, and roomfuls of inanimate objects that did not exist. The hallucinations usually lasted a few minutes and occasionally ...

TOKYO -- As part of the symptoms of lewy body dementia, librarian Akira Mitsuhashi, 71, is regularly visited by pleasant hallucinations of animals, strange patterns and historical pottery. In an ...

Hypnotized subjects who report hallucinating a visual situation which would ordinarily elicit optokinetic nystagmus demonstrate nystagmus under these conditions. They and control subjects are unable ...

Dementia is a brain disease that affects mental capacities such as the individual's memory, language, or capacity to understand and deal with emotions. Among the different types of dementia, dementia ...

You know the cameras are everywhere, watching your every move. They are embedded in street lights and often confused with doorbell cameras. In the walls, lights, cars and every public space. You just ...

The results show that there is no direct evidence in the literature assessing the use of AChEI's in treating visual hallucinations in Schizophrenia. Our review was deliberately narrow in keeping with ...

Visual hallucinations might be a common presentation in Psychiatry words. But there is an interesting neuro-ophthalmological condition where a person may be psychologically normal, yet he or she may ...