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hallucination
hallucination (hă-loo-sin-ay-shŏn) n. a false perception of something that is not really there. Hallucinations may be provoked by mental illness (such as schizophrenia or severe anxiety disorders) or physical disorders in the brain or they may be caused by drugs or sensory deprivation. Compare
illusion.
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Hallucination timing varies with dementia type.(Geriatrics)
Magazine article from: Internal Medicine News; 7/15/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...The onset of visual hallucinations relative to the estimated...Ferman said. Visual hallucination type, patient insight...were the most common hallucination in both groups (91%). Other common hallucinations involved insects...
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Onset of hallucinations varies between dementia types.(Geriatric Psychiatry)
Magazine article from: Clinical Psychiatry News; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...group. The onset of visual hallucinations relative to the estimated onset...case in this study." Visual hallucination type, patient insight, and...groups (91%). Other common hallucinations involved insects (22%) and...
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Dopaminergic treatment hallucinations not 'benign'.(Clinical Rounds)
Magazine article from: Family Practice News; 1/15/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...DIEGO -- So-called benign hallucinations associated with dopaminergic...disease who were diagnosed with hallucinations characterized by the patient...retention of the insight that the hallucinations are unreal. These hallucinations...
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Quantifying Self-Reports of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Persons With Psychosis
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Scale Auditory Hallucination tel qu'valu...prsence d'hallucinations auditiveverbales...experience auditory hallucinations (Wing, Cooper...Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) are...common form of hallucination in schizophrenia...
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Visual Hallucinations in Lewy Body Disease.
Newspaper article from: Neurology Alert; 4/1/2002; 700+ words
; Visual Hallucinations in Lewy Body Disease Abstract...fluctuating cognition and visual hallucinations in DLB, and the late development...differentiate patients with PD who have hallucinations and mild cognitive impairment from...
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Today's tune, tomorrow's hallucination
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 3/24/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...that the type of musical hallucinations experienced by the study...religious music during their hallucinations, there is probably no real...such obvious candidates for hallucination-inducing songs as Celine...Stones once their own musical hallucinations begin. The prediction begs...
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Hallucinations in the flash of an eye.
Newspaper article from: NewsRx Health; 9/21/2008; 546 words
; ...experimental approach to studying hallucinations as they occur. Surprisingly...changes that occur during hallucinations because of their brief...cannot anticipate when a hallucination will occur, so the chances...particular frequencies produce hallucinations of intricate patterns and...
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Hallucinations induce visions of math in brain.(The Dallas Morning News)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 3/12/2001; ; 700+ words
; After a hallucination, most people...In fact, hallucinations may reveal...world. And hallucinations may help to...describe how hallucination geometry reflects...the simplest hallucinations _ patterns...
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High caffeine intake linked to hallucination proneness.(Report)
Newspaper article from: Biotech Week; 1/28/2009; 700+ words
; ...caffeine intake and hallucination-proneness in students...were more prone to hallucinations used caffeine to help...impact on those kinds of hallucination that cause distress." Mr Jones added: "Hallucinations are not necessarily...
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"Hitting" Voices of Schizophrenia Patients May Lastingly Reduce Persistent Auditory Hallucinations and Their Burden: 18-month Outcome of a Randomized Controlled Trial
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Psychiatry; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...was used to compare hallucination-focused integrative...education, and illness (hallucination) duration were used...Improvements in hallucinations, distress, and...schizophrenia, hallucination, cognitive-behavioural...on auditory vocal hallucinations. HIT has significant...
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Hallucinations
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
...Haldol see Haloperidol Hallucinations Description A hallucination is a false perception...truly believes the hallucination is real, the individual...interpretation of the hallucination. Hallucinations must be distinguished...
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hallucination
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...classification of hallucination there exists a more...medicalization of hallucinations, portraying the...popular attitudes to hallucination have been transformed...identification of hallucination with organic disturbance...the significance of hallucinations was undermined by...
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Negative Hallucination
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
...anteriority relative to positive hallucination. Freud pursued this idea...first phase of negative hallucination is a narcissistic protection...compensatory production of positive hallucinations or delusions. More recent...massive forms of negative hallucination of the external world in...
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Hallucination
Encyclopedia entry from: Complete Human Diseases and Conditions
...happening. Hallucinations are different...During a hallucination, the person...types of hallucinations that people...x201C; dream hallucination ”...person up. Hallucinations also commonly...
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Hallucinations Rating Scale
Book article from: A Dictionary of Nursing
Hallucinations Rating Scale ( HRS ) n. an 11-item scale to determine details of auditory hallucinations in patients.
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