Hallucinations and propranolol.

Visual hallucinations and illusions with propranolol.

and chest pain simulating prolonged angina or a myocardial infarction which occurred about 30 minutes after taking the drug. These symptoms lasted for up to three hours and did not recur when the drug was withdrawn. We considered the chest pain to be a direct effect of nifedipine treatment. Nifedipine increases the myocardial blood supply and reduces coronary sinus lactate concentrations. It al...

Comparison of propranolol and propranolol

The technique of non-invasive blood pressure monitoring was used to compare the 24-hr control of blood pressure in 10 patients with essential hypertension taking either twice daily propranolol or a once daily long-acting formulation of propranolol (propranolol LA). Both drug regimes produced smooth control of blood pressure and heart rate through the 24 hours and significantly reduced blood pre...

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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...

Clonidine and auditory hallucinations.

Dear Editor: Clonidine is used to manage a variety of psychiatric symptoms in addition to general medical conditions such as hypertension and pain. We report a case of auditory hallucinations in the context of clonidine use. Case report. A 53-year-old African-American man was in a motor vehicle accident that resulted in multiple orthopedic surgeries and an extensive rehabilitation process. He h...