Hallucinations are often frightening and are caused by mental and general medical illnesses. What are those illnesses? Are hallucinations ever normal?

Lewy body dementia (LBD) is the third-most common form of dementia. Unlike Alzheimer’s, in which sufferers have issues forming new memories, people with Lewy body dementia can create new memories but ...

Auditory hallucinations are the hearing of sounds, usually human voices, that are not there. Visual hallucinations involve seeing things that do not exist. It can rarely be seen in patients with ...

Are hallucinations common in individuals with dementia? Changes in the brain because of the progression of the disease produce false perceptions of objects or experiences. Visual hallucinations, most ...

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 ...

Reduced brain activity responding to unpredicted visual changes is a marker of psychosis in Parkinson's disease and a potential therapeutic target. Researchers at the IoPPN used electroencephalography ...

A new study from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience shows how flickering light can cause hallucinations in our brain: it produces "standing waves" of brain activity. The work is published in ...