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hallucinosis

NOUN
  1. a mental state in which the person has continual hallucinations

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  • Carl Zimmer has written a great article for the Sunday Telegraph about a brain disorder called musical hallucinosis. Boing Boing: March 7, 2004 - March 13, 2004 Archives
  • I am speaking of what I can call musical hallucinosis, involuntary music in the head. Dr. Leo Rangell: Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border; Part 1
  • Experienced and knowledgeable clinicians, however, can further refine this and other amorphous categories (e.g., hallucinosis secondary to coarse brain disease) by their awareness of the scientific literature, which always runs ahead of the official nosology and offers unofficial, but clinically useful, choices (e.g., catatonia as a treatment-responsive syndrome separate from schizophrenia; various frontal and parietal lobe syndromes). The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
  • Peduncular hallucinosis occurs when perfectly sane people begin to see small, unthreatening cartoon characters, often in military attire. The Fiddler in the Subway
  • Patients with alcoholic hallucinosis experience visual, auditory, or tactile hallucinations but otherwise have a clear sensorium.
  • In particular, he appreciates that the robust differences between dreaming and waking consciousness such as the visuomotor hallucinosis, the delusional belief that one is awake, the distinctive defects in cognition, the heightened emotionality, and the poor memory have their neural correlates in the altered neural activation pattern of REM sleep. Being No One
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