Search results for "Hallucination"
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Visual hallucinations and agitation in Alzheimer's Disease due to memantine: report of three cases
2007
Memantine, a non-competitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist, is currently the only drug proposed for the treatment of moderate to severe Alzheimer’s disease.1 It has been shown to have neuroprotective effects by inhibiting the excitotoxic effect of NMDA glutamate receptors.2 Memantine has a tolerability profile similar to placebo.1 However, the worsening of psychotic symptoms in patients with Lewy body dementia (LBD) treated with memantine has been recently reported.3 We describe three patients with probable Alzheimer’s disease who developed worsening or de novo visual hallucinations and agitation after memantine treatment. Patient 1 was a 65-year-old woman with a 2-year hi…
White Noise Speech Illusions: A Trait-Dependent Risk Marker for Psychotic Disorder?
2019
Supported by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Program under grant agreement No. HEALTH-F2-2009-241909 (Project EU-GEI)
« Négatifs & clichés du XIXe siècle »
2011
L'ouvrage de Jean-Louis Cabanès constitue une synthèse personnelle et magistrale qui touche un grand nombre d'aspects de la littérature française du ! e siècle. « Empirique et peu systématique » (p. 15), de l'aveu de son auteur, cet essai foisonnant évoque tour à tour les plus grandes figures de ce siècle, sans se borner à l'étude d'un genre, quand bien même le récit en demeure la forme privilégiée. On y croise donc avec bonheur Hugo, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant, les Goncourt, Huysmans, mais aussi Chateaubriand, Balzac, Nodier, Gautier, Nerval, Verlaine ou Monnier, pour ne citer que quelques noms. L'étude fait alterner des chapitres théoriques denses, qui permettent des mises au …
Association between CCK-AR gene and schizophrenia with auditory hallucinations
2007
[Objective]: Previous studies on a possible association between CCK-AR polymorphisms and schizophrenia have been controversial. The aim of the present study was to assess a potential association between schizophrenic patients with auditory hallucinations and polymorphisms of the CCK-AR gene.