Hallucinators find meaning in noises: Pareidolic illusions in dementia with Lewy bodies

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 245-254

  Yokoi, Kayoko ^a   Nishio, Yoshiyuki ^a   Uchiyama, Makoto ^b   Shimomura, Tatsuo ^c   Iizuka, Osamu ^a   Mori, Etsuro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Dementia with Lewy bodies; Pareidolias; Visual hallucinations; Visual illusions

Indexed keywords

DONEPEZIL; FLUVOXAMINE; LEVODOPA; PRAMIPEXOLE; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; TRAZODONE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PAREIDOLIC ILLUSION; VISUAL HALLUCINATION; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; NOISE; PAREIDOLIA; VISION; VISION TEST;

ACETYLCHOLINE; DEMENTIA WITH LEWY BODIES; PAREIDOLIAS; VISUAL HALLUCINATIONS; VISUAL ILLUSIONS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; LEWY BODY DISEASE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84896729405     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.01.017     Document Type: Article

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