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Visual hallucinations and illusions: neurological considerations
Author(s) -
BORRUAT FX
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
acta ophthalmologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.534
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1755-3768
pISSN - 1755-375X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2009.3423.x
Subject(s) - illusion , visual hallucination , presentation (obstetrics) , psychology , optical illusion , medicine , cognitive psychology , optometry , neuroscience , psychiatry , surgery
Visual hallucinations (seeing what is not present) or illusions (perceiving differently what is actually present) can result from either ophthalmological or neurological disorders. This presentation will be focused on the neurological causes of such visual disorders, with an emphasis on the clinical presentations, anatomical correlations and diagnostic procedures.