BACKGROUND Visual hallucinations occur in various neurological diseases, but are most prominent in Lewy body dementia, Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia. The lifetime prevalence of visual hallucinations in patients with schizophrenia is much more common than conventionally thought and ranges from 24% to 72%. Cortical acetylcholine (ACh) depletion has been associated with visual hallucinatio...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The literature related to visual hallucinations in ophthalmological settings from 2007 to 2008 is presented as a review of recent developments and trends. RECENT FINDINGS Acuity, contrast sensitivity, age and sex emerge as significant and consistent risk factors for visual hallucinations, together with new evidence to suggest that up to 40% of patients have long-term halluci...

Patients with hallucinations lose the ability to be oriented towards reality, so they need social support, especially from their families able carry out activities such as self-care. The purpose of this study was determine relationship between family support and self-care patients hallucinations. This uses a correlational research design cross sectional approach sample 104 respondents taken by ...

The increasing development of apps for digital devices provides an opportunity for new instruments to assess hallucinations in young individuals. Here we present the Multisensory HAllucinations Scale for Children (MHASC), dedicated to assessing complex early-onset hallucinations. The MHASC will soon be translated into multilanguage versions with the support of the International Consortium of Ha...

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...

Hallucinations constitute one of the 5 symptom domains of psychotic disorders in DSM-5, suggesting diagnostic significance for that group of disorders. Although specific featural properties of hallucinations (negative voices, talking in the third person, and location in external space) are no longer highlighted in DSM, there is likely a residual assumption that hallucinations in schizophrenia c...