User:Mr. Ibrahem/Hallucination
| Hallucination | |
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| My eyes at the moment of the apparitions by August Natterer, a German artist who created many drawings of his hallucinations. | |
| Specialty | Psychiatry |
| Symptoms | Sensing things that do not exist[1] |
| Causes | Drugs, medications, schizophrenia, dementia, vision loss, extreme tiredness[1] |
| Differential diagnosis | Dreaming, pseudohallucination, illusion, imagination[2] |
| Treatment | Depends on the underlying cause[1] |
| Frequency | Relatively common[3] |
A hallucination is where someone senses things that do not exist.[1] They fell like normal perceptions in their vividness and cannot be controlled.[4] The senses potentially involved include seeing, hearing, tasting, and feeling.[1] People may become frightened or paranoid as a result.[1]
Causes may include drugs, certain medications, schizophrenia, dementia, vision loss, and extreme tiredness.[1] The drugs involved may include alcohol, amphetamines, cocaine, LSD, or ecstasy.[1] Hallucinations may also occur around the time of sleep and during a fever.[1] Some people also have hallucinations as part of their religious experience.[4] Similar phenomena include dreaming, which does not involve wakefulness; pseudohallucination, which are accurately perceived as unreal; illusion, which involves misinterpreted real perception; and imagination, which is under voluntary control.[2] Delusions are beliefs that do not change despite conflicting evidence.[4]
Treatment depends on the underlying cause.[1] The most common form of hallucination is hearing voices, which affects 5 to 28% of people.[1][3] This is not uncommon after someone has lost a loved one.[1] Hallucinations have been described since at least the time of ancient Greece.[5] The word "hallucination" was introduced into English from Latin in 1572.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Hallucinations and hearing voices". nhs.uk. 18 October 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
- ^ a b Leo P. W. Chiu (1989). "Differential diagnosis and management of hallucinations" (PDF). Journal of the Hong Kong Medical Association. t 41 (3): 292–7.
- ^ a b Thakur, T; Gupta, V (January 2020). "Auditory Hallucinations". PMID 32491565.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ a b c Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fifth ed.). American Psychiatric Association. 2013. pp. 87-88. doi:10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596.156852. ISBN 978-0-89042-555-8.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ a b Jardri, Renaud; Cachia, Arnaud; Thomas, Pierre; Pins, Delphine (2012). The Neuroscience of Hallucinations. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-4614-4121-2.