Atypical Charles Bonnet hallucinations: An elf in the woodshed, a spirit of evil, and the cowboy malefactors

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 108-115

  Needham, Walter E ^a   Taylor, Robert E ^b  

^a VACHS   (United States)

^b BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHARLES BONNET SYNDROME; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; MALE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VISUAL HALLUCINATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DREAMS; FEMALE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 0033951574     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-200002000-00007     Document Type: Article

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