Visual hallucinations and the Charles Bonnet syndrome

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 168-179

  Ffytche, Dominic H ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENT; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

AGE; BEREAVEMENT; BRAIN STEM; CHARLES BONNET SYNDROME; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CLINICAL STUDY; COGNITION; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EYE DISEASE; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHENOMENOLOGY; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

EID: 21444445557     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-005-0050-3     Document Type: Review

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