LONGVIEW, Texas -- Social worker Roy Brady said investing about 10 minutes to sit through a simulated schizophrenia experience gave him a new appreciation of what people with the mental illness go ...

Immersive virtual reality experiences can reproduce visual hallucination effects, miming those induced by the use of psychedelic substances. This is the result of an experimental study published in ...

Psychedelics and Parkinson’s may trigger hallucinations through the same system, revealing how fragile the balance is between externally and internally generated perception.

Spiritualist mediums might be more prone to immersive mental activities and unusual auditory experiences early in life, according to new research. But new research may give us an insight into why some ...

When you’re sure you’ve seen something, then realize it’s not actually there, it can jolt you. It’s called a visual hallucination, and it can seem like your mind is playing tricks on you. Beyond being ...

Hallucinations can be a sign of a mental health illness, but they do not always mean a person is unwell. Hallucinations are, in fact, relatively common. One 2015 study from Europe found that 7.3 ...

Over the past decades, computer scientists have introduced increasingly sophisticated machine learning-based models, which can perform remarkably well on various tasks. These include multimodal large ...

Visual hallucinations (VH) among patients with Parkinson disease (PD) appear to be associated with thinning of the inner retina, according to research published in Scientific Reports. Although VH are ...

You may see colors, patterns, and shapes when you shut your eyes due to activity between neurons in the brain and your vision. Some health conditions also cause closed-eye hallucinations. Share on ...

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