Hallucinations
Resources for Patients and Caregivers
Hallucinations are where someone sees, hears, smells, tastes or feels things that don’t exist outside their mind. They’re common in people with schizophrenia, and are usually experienced as hearing voices. Hallucinations can be frightening, but there’s usually an identifiable cause.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: 22-Hallucinations
Diagnosis:
US Patients: 10-15% over a lifetime of even healthy individuals
World Patients:
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Age Onset:
Brain Area:
Symptoms: perceptions of external stimuli which do not exist
Progression: can occur through any of the senses
Causes: occur frequently in schizophrenia, parkinson’s disease. More than five cups of coffee.
Medications: antipsychotics
Therapies:
Youtube Video: What Hallucination Reveals About Our Minds
Amazon or Library Book: Hallucinations
Click the book to link or buy from Amazon.
Support Group: nami.org 8009506-6264
(National Alliance on Mental Illness)
Resources for Physicians, Counselors and Researchers
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
FROM PUBMED
The world-wide medical research
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PubMed article’s summary-abstract.
- Safety strategies and harm reduction for methamphetamine users in the era of fentanyl contamination: A qualitative analysisby Olufemi Erinoso on May 18, 2024
CONCLUSION: Our findings uniquely demonstrate that people who use methamphetamine prioritize community driven, trust-based strategies within their social networks to mitigate risks in a fentanyl-contaminated drug environment. Additionally, our results indicate that harm reduction behaviors are influenced by multilevel risk environments, which include social, physical, economic, and political factors. Overall, these results highlight the potential for targeted interventions at the network level,...
- Utility of Large Language Models for Health Care Professionals and Patients in Navigating Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: Comparison of the Performance of ChatGPT-3.5, ChatGPT-4, and Bardby Elisabetta Xue on May 17, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: In conclusion, despite LLMs' potential capability in confronting challenging medical topics such as HSCT, the presence of mistakes and lack of clear references make them not yet appropriate for routine, unsupervised clinical use, or patient counseling. Implementation of LLMs' ability to access and to reference current and updated websites and research papers, as well as development of LLMs trained in specialized domain knowledge data sets, may offer potential solutions for their...
- Effect of add-on tDCS therapy for auditory hallucinations on frequency and duration deviant mismatch negativity in schizophreniaby Anushree Bose on May 17, 2024
No abstract
- HOMER1 Polymorphism and Parkinson's Disease-Psychosis: Is there an Association?by Abhishek Lenka on May 16, 2024
CONCLUSION: PD-P is probably associated with overrepresentation of T-allele of HOMER1 rs4704560, and larger studies are warranted to confirm our results.