Hallucination
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15,000 pensioners needlessly sedated with 'chemical cosh'...care homes and hospitals. They are prescribed to control symptoms such as aggression, agitation and hallucinations but critics say they are often given to heavily sedate people a the so-called "chemical cosh". In the government review,... In this article: Dementia, Antipsychotic, Nicola Sturgeon, UK, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, and Hallucination |
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Telegraph.co.uk - All news | November 12, 2009
'Chemical cosh' drugs 'killing thousands a year'
...of patients whose lives had been cut short by the drugs. Antipsychotics are designed to ease aggression, agitation, hallucinations and delusions, which can be caused by dementia. Official guidelines warn that they should be used for only...
In this article: Antipsychotic, Dementia, Sedative, John Lewis Partnership, Delusion, and Alzheimer's Research Trust
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Des Moines Register | November 04, 2009
Assisted-living center tenants say concerns about late resident were ignored
...care to three residents in their 80s. One suffered from dementia and hallucinations, was diagnosed with acute congestive heart failure and was evaluated for hospice care just two months after admission. Dave Werning of the Iowa Department of...
In this article: Dementia and Cardiac arrest
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Wikipedia | November 04, 2009
Ancient Iranian Medicine
In The Canon of Medicine (c. 1025), he first described numerous neuropsychiatric conditions, including hallucination, insomnia, mania, nightmare, melancholia, dementia, epilepsy, paralysis, stroke, vertigo and tremor. In the 10th...
In this article: Avicenna, Surgery, The Canon of Medicine, Scientific method, Islamic, Muhammad ibn Zakariya ar-Razi, Galen, and Epilepsy
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Medical News Today | November 04, 2009
Two New Studies Show Dementia Care Fails People With Sight Loss
...at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, reviewed existing literature on hallucinations in sight loss and dementia and found the three conditions occur together more frequently than previously recognised. From their...
In this article: Dementia, Medical advice, King's College, London, Alzheimer's, Institute of Psychiatry, and UK
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PsychPORT--Psychology in the News | January 09, 2009
Alzheimer's drugs double death risk in elderly
...Friday in the medical journal, Lancet Neurology. Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia and causes symptoms including aggression, delusions and hallucinations. Previous studies have shown anti-psychotic drugs, which...
In this article: Alzheimer's disease, Antipsychotic, Dementia, King's College London, London, Stelazine, Risperdal, and Thorazine
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Psychology in medieval Islam
...anatomy of the brain. Avicenna first described a number of neuropsychiatric conditions, including hallucination, insomnia, mania, nightmare, melancholia, dementia, epilepsy, paralysis, stroke, vertigo and tremor. He dedicated three...
In this article: Psychology, Avicenna, Islam, Ibn al-Nafis, God, Muhammad ibn Zakariya Razi, Depression, Ibn al-Haytham, Melancholia, and Philosophy
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Kim Morgan: Roman Polanski Understands Women: Repulsion
Carol's dementia creates perplexing hallucinations: sexual acts with a greasy man whom she simultaneously loathes and lusts after; greedy hands poking through walls and kneading her soft flesh; and the moving and cracking of walls. Left...
In this article: Roman Polanski, Repulsion, Catherine Deneuve, Wikipedia, Dementia, and Shyness
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History of the brain
...numerous neurological disorders sometimes relating them to psychiatric conditions , including hallucination, insomnia, mania, nightmare, melancholia, dementia, epilepsy, paralysis, stroke, vertigo and tremor. In al-Andalus, Abulcasis ,...
In this article: History, Islamic, Mental disorder, Meningitis, Epilepsy, Vertigo, Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Love sickness, and Melancholia
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New Jersey On-Line | August 14, 2009
FDA approves Schering-Plough drug for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder
...which affects about 2 million Americans and 24 million people worldwide, is an incurable mental disorder involving episodes of hallucinations, delusions, loss of contact with reality and difficulty functioning socially or at work.
In this article: Schering-Plough Corp, Bipolar disorder, Food and Drug Administration, Kenilworth, Risperdal, Mental disorder, Zyprexa, Abilify, Depression, and Dementia
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A hallucination, in the broadest sense, is a perception in the absence of a stimulus. In a stricter sense, hallucinations are defined as perceptions in a conscious and awake state in the absence of external stimuli which have qualities of real perception, in that they are vivid, substantial, and located in external objective space. These definitions distinguish hallucinations from the related phenomena of dreaming, which does not involve consciousness; illusion, which involves distorted or misinterpreted real perception; imagery, which does not mimic real perception and is under voluntary control; and pseudohallucination, which does not mimic real perception, but is not under voluntary control.
Hallucinations also differ from "delusional perceptions", in which a correctly sensed and interpreted genuine perception is given some additional (and typically bizarre) significance.
Hallucinations may occur in any sensory modality — visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, proprioceptive, equilibrioceptive, nociceptive, and thermoceptive.
A mild form of hallucination is known as a disturbance, and can occur in any of the senses above. These may be things like seeing movement in peripheral vision, or hearing faint noises and voices.
Hypnagogic hallucinations and hypnopompic hallucinations are considered normal phenomena. Hypnagogic hallucinations can occur as one is falling asleep and hypnopompic hallucinations occur when one is waking up. Hallucinations may also be associated with drug use (particularly deliriants), sleep deprivation, psychosis, neurological disorders, and delirium tremens.
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