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)
- Association between visual hallucinations and cognitive performance in Lewy body dementia and Alzheimer's disease: A cross-sectional studyby Yaqi Yang on May 7, 2025
CONCLUSIONS: VH may independently correlate with deterioration in global cognitive performance. In DLB patients with VH, attentional function appears to be more impaired, whereas in AD patients, orientation function is the most affected. Different cognitive domains may help distinguish between DLB and AD patients with VH.
- Relating Therapy for distressing voices: A treatment protocolby Mark Hayward on May 7, 2025
CONCLUSION: Learning to respond assertively may be beneficial to some adults who are distressed by hearing voices. A definitive randomised controlled trial is warranted to evaluate the clinical and cost-effectiveness of Relating Therapy and to explore the mechanisms through which any benefits might be generated.
- Long-Term Outcomes in a Parkinson's Disease Minor Phenomena Cohortby Ruth B Schneider on May 7, 2025
CONCLUSIONS: Over a 3-year period, there was a high cumulative probability of psychosis among individuals with PD minor phenomena in this single-center prospective study.
- ChatOCT: Embedded Clinical Decision Support Systems for Optical Coherence Tomography in Offline and Resource-Limited Settingsby Chang Liu on May 7, 2025
Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a critical imaging modality for diagnosing ocular and systemic conditions, yet its accessibility is hindered by the need for specialized expertise and high computational demands. To address these challenges, we introduce ChatOCT, an offline-capable, domain-adaptive clinical decision support system (CDSS) that integrates structured expert Q&A generation, OCT-specific knowledge injection, and activation-aware model compression. Unlike existing systems, ChatOCT...