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An auditory hallucination, or paracusia, [1] is a form of hallucination that involves perceiving sounds without auditory stimulus. While experiencing an auditory hallucination, the affected person hears a sound or sounds that did not come from the natural environment. A common form of auditory hallucination involves hearing one or more voices ...
Postpartum psychosis. Postpartum psychosis (PPP), also known as puerperal psychosis or peripartum psychosis, involves the abrupt onset of psychotic symptoms shortly following childbirth, typically within two weeks of delivery but less than 4 weeks postpartum. [2] PPP is a condition currently represented under "Brief Psychotic Disorder" in the ...
Musical hallucinations. Musical hallucinations (also known as auditory hallucinations, auditory Charles Bonnet Syndrome, and Oliver Sacks' syndrome [1]) describes a neurological disorder in which the patient will hallucinate songs, tunes, instruments and melodies. The source of these hallucinations are not correlated with psychotic illness. [2]
Researchers said on Monday they have for the first time mapped the changes that unfold as a woman's brain reorganizes in response to pregnancy, based on scans carried out 26 times starting three ...
Prenatal memory, also called fetal memory, is important for the development of memory in humans. Many factors can impair fetal memory and its functions, primarily maternal actions. There are multiple techniques available not only to demonstrate the existence of fetal memory but to measure it. Fetal memory is vulnerable to certain diseases so ...
A hallucination is a perception in the absence of an external stimulus that has the compelling sense of reality. [4] Hallucination is a combination of two conscious states of brain: wakefulness and REM sleep. [5] They are distinguishable from several related phenomena, such as dreaming (REM sleep), which does not involve wakefulness ...
Auditory hallucinations discussing the patient's thoughts as or before they occur. Auditory hallucinations taking the form of a commentary on the subject's thoughts or behavior. The experience of intrusion of unusual ideas or thoughts into the subject's mind as a result of the action of some external agency ( thought insertion ).
The Hearing Voices Movement (HVM) is the name used by organizations and individuals advocating the "hearing voices approach", [1] an alternative way of understanding the experience of those people who "hear voices". In the medical professional literature, ‘voices’ are most often referred to as auditory verbal hallucinations.