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Hallucinations in children can affect any of the five senses: Auditory hallucinations involve hearing sounds that aren’t real. Visual hallucinations involve seeing visual images that...
The most common hallucinations are auditory and visual, but olfactory, gustatory (taste), tactile, proprioceptive, and somatic also occur. Hallucinations may be mood-congruent or incongruent.
Visual hallucinations included seeing frightening objects such as skeletons or ghosts, but a number of children also talked about seeing recently deceased people. The children with hallucinations and non-psychotic diagnoses were found to be older and with lower IQ than the majority of clinic attenders and they were also more likely to be ...
Examples of visual illusions include distortions of size (micropsia or macropsia), shape (metamorphopsia), and color (dyschromatopsia). Visual hallucinations and illusions are clinically distinct phenomena but have overlapping etiologies.
Learn what can cause these visual hallucinations, how your doctor will test for them, and what kind of treatment you might need.
A hallucination is a false auditory, visual, gustatory, tactile, or olfactory perception not associated with real external stimuli.1 It must be differentiated from similar phenomenon such as illusions (misperception of actual stimuli), elaborate fantasies, imaginary companions, and eidetic images (visual images stored in memory).
The present article has 3 main aims: (1) to outline new research that has emerged since 2014; (2) to present assessment tools used to investigate hallucinations in children and adolescents; and (3) to discuss therapeutic strategies and clinical issues.