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Showing 1 to 20 of 111 for “"hallucinations"”.
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Psychological Flexibility and Auditory Hallucinations
… people distressed and/or disabled by auditory hallucinations, it is theorised that this experience is responded to in a psychologically inflexible manner: becoming a target for avoidance, control or focus, appraised as more powerful than the person experiencing the voices, and leading to …
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Neurobiological mechanisms of hallucinations in schizophrenia
… in the physical world and are experienced as hallucinations. Hallucinations occur transdiagnostically, cross-culturally, and in all sensory modalities. They are common in people with schizophrenia, presenting in 60-80% of patients. Despite over 20 years of active neuroimaging research on …
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Programmable synthetic hallucinations : towards a boundless mixed reality
Programmable Synthetic Hallucinations describe the utilization of the bio-physiological mechanics of hallucination generated in the human brain to display virtual information directly in the visual field. Science fiction films, television shows, and video games have trained audiences to think of …
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Behavioral impulsivity and hallucinations : insights from Parkinson's disease
… that several symptoms of the disease, including hallucinations and impulse control behaviors, stem from the dopaminergic medications used to control the motor aspects of PD. Not all patients experience these nonmotor symptoms and tools that can predict a priori which patients are likely to have …
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Different Realities: Challenging Conventional Ways of Conceptualising Delusions and Hallucinations
Delusions and hallucinations are typically regarded in contemporary Western societies as signs of serious mental illness - that is, as essentially meaningless surface expressions of a biological process, that are almost invariably distressing and harmful to those experiencing them. However, these …
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An Investigation of the Validity of Hypnotically Induced Visual Hallucinations
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Dreams, hallucinations, moving statues, and Ekphrasis in Ludwig Tieck's visual writings
<p>When reading Ludwig Tieck's texts the reader becomes aware that dreams, the unconscious, and art play a key role. This study seeks to posit that Ekphrasis and dream interpretation are similar due to both analyzing a visual image and attempting to translate the visual into the verbal in order to …
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Risk Factors for Visual Hallucinations in Parkinson's Disease: Investigating the Continuum
… neuropsychological aspects of visual hallucinations (VHs) in Parkinson's Disease (PD) and high proneness to VHs in the normal population. The aim of the thesis is to investigate whether the same risk factors are implicated in both hallucinating PD patients and in high-prone individuals …
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Anatomy of visual hallucinations and fluctuations of consciousness in Lewy body diseases
… neuropsychiatric features of dementia, visual hallucinations and altered states of consciousness. The underlying neurobiological changes responsible for the psychiatric features are poorly understood. The integrative centre and key area for arousal, the thalamus, has not been assessed for …
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Beyond pre-training: continual learning and hallucinations in transformer-based language models.
… of recent approaches to detecting and mitigating hallucinations in large language models (LLMs) is conducted, identifying (1) a gap in how different LLM layers are used during detection and (2) the need for fine-grained detection between hallucinated and non-hallucinated responses to the same …
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Abnormal Anatomy of the Auditory Cortex in Schizophrenic Brains with Auditory Hallucinations
… with schizophrenia who experience auditory hallucinations than in normal control individuals. These findings are not without controversy. While there has been significant research considering volumetric variance in pathologic brains with AH, there is a paucity of data considering the …
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Developing a theory of the emotional impact of auditory hallucinations: an exploratory study
… developments in the cognitive model of auditory hallucinations ("voices") in people with psychoses. Following the research of Chadwick and Birchwood (1994), data are presented on the behavioural, cognitive and affective responses to persistent voices of thirty participants with psychoses. After …
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Effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation as a treatment for persistent auditory verbal hallucinations
Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) are perception-like experiences that occur without an external stimulus. Phenomenological studies suggest that AVHs can vary along eight dimensions: loudness, clarity, complexity, frequency, control, location, content and personification. AVHs are experienced …
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Linking the Relationship Between Childhood Interpersonal Trauma and Auditory Hallucinations: Considerations for Assessment, Conceptualization, and Treatment
… interpersonal trauma and development of auditory hallucinations in children, adolescents, and adults. Several factors may influence whether an individual will experience auditory hallucinations after exposure to childhood interpersonal traumatic events, including the type of trauma exposure such …
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A Life Disrupted: Still Lived
… illustrates the experience of living with hallucinations from the perspective of being, and sought to answer the questions: what is the meaning of hallucinations and how do hallucinations connect to one's sense of self?A phenomenological Heideggerian hermeneutic approach was used to guide …
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