Was Van Gogh’s madness fueled by art or alcohol? A modern medical analysis reveals how psychosis, epilepsy, and thiamine ...

By studying the visual system in people with psychosis, we hope to learn more about how brain functions differ in this group, as we have a reasonably good understanding of how brain activity ...

New research suggests that paranoia and excessive teleological thinking—two forms of distorted beliefs about intention—are ...

One of the most distressing manifestations of PDP is visual hallucinations (VH), where individuals see things that are not present. Recent research has focused on understanding the underlying ...

People with schizophrenia experience impaired contrast perception, affecting their ability to differentiate light intensity ...

Today, most psychiatrists feel that psychedelic drug psychosis is not a particularly ... by brain activation during sleep, with the visual imagery dependent on activation of the higher ...

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 ...

Conditions with underlying cholinergic deficits and high rates of visual hallucinations include Alzheimer's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease. Targeted drug therapy of the ...