MEASURING HALLUCINATIONS

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Hallucinations and perceptual inference

This commentary takes a closer look at how “constructive models of subjective perception,” referred to by Collerton et al. (sect. 2), might contribute to the Perception and Attention Deficit (PAD) model. It focuses on the neuronal mechanisms that could mediate hallucinations, or false inference – in particular, the role of cholinergic systems in encoding uncertainty in the context of hierarchic...

Hallucinations during voriconazole therapy.

As part of a prospective natural history cohort study of voriconazole toxicity, we describe the characteristics of 12 of 72 voriconazole-treated patients who experienced hallucinations from March 2006 through November 2007. Hallucinations associated with voriconazole use are not uncommon. Doctors should be aware of this complication, and the recipients of the drug should be reassured that the h...

On Hallucinations in Insanity

The hallucinations and illusions of melancholic monomania (lypemania of Esquirol) are characterized by fixity, intensity, and tenacity, as well as by expression, which distinguish them from those observed in acute delirium and mania. The integrity of the reasoning power, excepting always some obscured portions, "permits lis in most cases to analyse the phenomena and follow their modifications w...

Jonathan Lang's Hallucinations

An intelligent schizophrenic whose fictitious name was Jonathan Lang hallucinated for more than 8 years. His coping behaviour included analysing the aspects of hallucinations, analysing the inter-relation between varieties of hallucinations, studying the relations of hallucinations to environmental variables, physiological states .ind psychological factors, experimenting on the production of ha...