... conceptualized as a continuous, dynamic, and multidimensional phenomenon. This study aims to determine the impact of delusions and hallucinations in different dimensions of clinical insight in schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Methods: Cross-sectional multicenter study including 516 patients (336 men) diagnosed...

...Valentin Yurievich Skryabin; Giovanni Martinotti; Johan Franck; Mikhail Sergeevich Zastrozhin Acute alcoholic hallucinosis is a psychotic disorder characterized by a predominance of auditory hallucinations with delusions and affective symptoms in the clinical picture. Classically, it develops...

.... Phenomenology Dissociations Basic symptoms Cross-cultural comparison Delusions Depersonalization Hallucinations Schizophrenia Schizotypy Self-disorder Schizophrenia (SZ) has long been conceptualized as a disorder of the self [1]. Implicit awareness of one’s body as a unified entity with fixed...

...Wei Lin Toh; Neil Thomas; Susan L. Rossell There has been burgeoning interest in studying hallucinations in psychosis occurring across multiple sensory modalities. The current study aimed to characterize the auditory hallucination and delusion profiles in patients with auditory hallucinations only...

...Christina W. Slotema; Jan Dirk Blom; Mathijs Deen; Marieke B.A. Niemantsverdriet; Mark van der Gaag; Hans W. Hoek; Iris E.C. Sommer Background: Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) are experienced by 21-54% of patients diagnosed with a borderline personality disorder (BPD), and ensuing distress...

... delusion-like ideas, amotivation and perceptual disruptions reminiscent of the aberrant salience experiences that characterize first-episode psychosis. However, auditory verbal hallucinations, a hallmark symptom of schizophrenia, have not been reported consistently in healthy volunteers even at high doses...

...Savya Cybelle Milhomem Rocha; Marcia Akemi Kii; Cristiana Borges Pereira; Danilo Totarelli Borelli; Orestes Forlenza; Tanit Ganz Sanchez Background: Although auditory hallucinations are considered a psychopathological phenomenon, musical hallucinations have been reported in individuals without...

...Lampros Perogamvros Philosophers, psychiatrists and neuroscientists have all expressed interest in and formulated hypotheses on the nature of hallucinations, but no sufficient integration of these models exists to this date. The objective of this article is to present a neurophilosophical model...

...Jérôme Graux; Maël Lemoine; Wissam El Hage; Vincent Camus Henri Ey suggested that all hallucinations occur against the background of depersonalization, which is an alteration in experience that people find hard to describe, where the subject feels a strangeness pervading the world and her/his own...

... of this study was to identify subgroups of patients characterized by having hallucinations only or delusions only and to examine whether these groups differed with regard to demographic characteristics, clinical characteristics and outcome factors, including suicidality. Methods: Out of 301 consecutively...

...J. Favrod; F. Grasset; S. Spreng; B. Grossenbacher; Y. Hodé Background: This study measures the impact of beliefs about auditory hallucinations on social functioning. Sampling and Methods: Twenty-nine subjects who met the ICD-10 criteria for schizophrenia or a schizo-affective disorder were...

...Giovanni Stanghellini; John Cutting Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) are usually defined as perceptions of speech that occur in the absence of any appropriate external stimulus. This definition, we argue, is false. We maintain that AVHs are disorders of self-consciousness that are best...

...Christopher Baethge An inquiry into the psychopathology and the clinical significance of grief hallucinations is presented and two cases with severe grief hallucinations are described. Unlike many cases in the literature, the two female patients were young (aged 43 and 45, respectively) and both...