Pareidolias: Complex visual illusions in dementia with Lewy bodies

Brain

Volumn 135, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2458-2469

  Uchiyama, Makoto ^a   Nishio, Yoshiyuki ^a   Yokoi, Kayoko ^a   Hirayama, Kazumi ^b   Imamura, Toru ^c   Shimomura, Tatsuo ^d   Mori, Etsuro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

^d Akita Prefectural Centre of Rehabilitation and Psychiatric Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

acetylcholine; dementia with Lewy bodies; visual hallucinations; visual illusions

Indexed keywords

DONEPEZIL;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PAREIDOLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISUAL HALLUCINATION; VISUAL ILLUSION;

EID: 84864651983     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/aws126     Document Type: Article

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