When one visually hallucinates, the object of one’s hallucination is not before eyes. On standard view, that because does exist, and so anywhere. Many different defenses view are on offer; each has problems. This article defends there always an hallucination—a physical object, sometimes with spatiotemporally scattered parts.

Background:  Diplopia, or double vision, is a common ophthalmologic complaint with many underlying causes, ocular and neurological. Aripiprazole has been reported to have fewer adverse effects and better efficacy than other atypical antipsychotics. Although ocular side effects of aripiprazole are not remarkable, two cases of diplopia associated with aripiprazole have been reported in the litera...

Self-injurious behavior (SIB) or self-mutilating behavior (SMB) is rare but can occur in temporal lobe epilepsy. Such a behavior during seizures is not usually recalled by patient. Here is a case with self mutilating behavior in left temporal lobe epilepsy, presented because of its rare manifestation and diagnostic dilemma. A 19 year old unmarried Muslim student presented to emergency with SMB,...

This paper develops a statistical inference approach, Bayesian Tensor Inference, for style transformation between photo images and sketch images of human faces. Motivated by the rationale that image appearance is determined by two cooperative factors: image content and image style, we first model the interaction between these factors through learning a patch-based tensor model. Second, by intro...

Few studies have investigated hallucinations that occur at the onset/offset of sleep (called hypnagogic/hypnopompic hallucinations; HHHs), despite fact their prevalence in general population is reported to be higher than daytime hallucinations. We utilized data from an epidemiological study explore HHHs various modalities. also phenomenological differences between sleep-related (HHHs) and audit...

• 254 • • Forum • The experience of auditory hallucinations, especially verbal hallucinations, is a common psychotic symptom in persons with schizophrenia, but in about 30% of these individuals traditional treatment with antipsychotic medication is not effective in reducing the hallucinations. For this subgroup of patients, alternative forms of treatment need to be assessed. The occurrence of a...