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Expert en Médecine, Optimisation des Parcours de Soins et Révision Médicale
Validation scientifique effectuée le 23/03/2025
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8 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
Norwegian Center of Excellence for Mental Disorders Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Psychology and Neuroscience of Cognition Research Unit, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium.
6 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
CHU Nantes, Clinical Gerontology Department, Bd Jacques Monod, F44093, Nantes, France.
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Yale University School of Medicine and the Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, Connecticut. Electronic address: albert.powers@yale.edu.
Publications dans "Hallucinations" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Publications dans "Hallucinations" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Publications dans "Hallucinations" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Dementia Research Centre, University College London, London, UK r.weil@ucl.ac.uk.
Publications dans "Hallucinations" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Yale University School of Medicine and the Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, Connecticut.
Publications dans "Hallucinations" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Publications dans "Hallucinations" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Publications dans "Hallucinations" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Publications dans "Hallucinations" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Parnassia Psychiatric Institute, Kiwistraat 43, The Hague 2552 DH, the Netherlands; Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands; Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Publications dans "Hallucinations" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, 5009 Bergen, Norway.
Division of Psychiatry, Haukeland University Hospital, 5021 Bergen, Norway.
Department of Radiology, Haukeland University Hospital, 5021 Bergen, Norway.
Publications dans "Hallucinations" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Neuroscience, Imaging, and Clinical Sciences, University G. d'Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy.
Publications dans "Hallucinations" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
Publications dans "Hallucinations" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
ForeFront Parkinson's Disease Research Clinic, Brain and Mind Centre, School of Medical Sciences, the University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia.
Publications dans "Hallucinations" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
Perth Voices Clinic, Murdoch, Australia.
Publications dans "Hallucinations" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Publications dans "Hallucinations" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Old Age Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College, London, UK.
Publications dans "Hallucinations" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Neurology, Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg, 4, rue Barblé, L-1210 Luxembourg-City, Luxembourg.
Publications dans "Hallucinations" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Dept. Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Okayama University, Tsushima-naka, 3-1-1, Okayama 700-8530, Japan.
Publications dans "Hallucinations" :
Fighting the designer drug epidemic with generative AI....
Recent advances in computational psychiatry have identified latent cognitive and perceptual states that predispose to psychotic symptoms. Behavioral data fit to Bayesian models have demonstrated an ov...
To determine whether task performance and estimated prior weighting relate to specific elements of symptom expression, a large, heterogeneous, and deeply phenotyped sample of hallucinators (n = 249) a...
We found that CH rates predicted stable measures of hallucination status (i.e., peak frequency). However, CH rates were more sensitive to hallucination state (i.e., recent frequency), significantly co...
These results indicate that CH rate and prior overweighting are state markers of hallucination status, potentially useful in tracking disease development and treatment response....
Hallucinations are currently associated almost exclusively with psychopathological states. While it is evident that hallucinations can indicate psychopathology or neurological disorders, we should rem...
Test an intervention for people with schizophrenia and auditory verbal hallucinations at an acute inpatient unit (AIU) to engage with community therapy and reduce hallucination severity and associated...
A single-blind, randomised, control trial compared the intervention with TAU over 6-months post-discharge using Engagement in Community Therapy, Psychotic Symptom Rating Scale (PSYRATS) auditory hallu...
Post-discharge community therapy engagement increased at 6 months compared to baseline in the intervention, TAU and combined groups. PSYRATS AHS and H-DIS scores decreased from baseline to last follow...
Most participants chose to engage with a community therapist despite not being initially assigned for referral by their psychiatrist and experiencing moderately severe symptoms....
Circadian rhythms are imprinted in all organisms and influence virtually all aspects of physiology and behavior in adaptation to the 24-h day-night cycle. This recognition of a circadian timekeeping s...
Although tramadol has been suggested to have a higher risk of producing hallucinations than other opioids, reports of musical hallucinations are extremely rare....
A 72-year-old woman came to our department complaining of auditory hallucinations. She had been diagnosed with lumbar spinal canal stenosis associated with herniated and slipped disks. Due to persiste...
Based on the clinical course, we concluded that the auditory hallucinations were musical hallucinations induced by tramadol....
Acute exacerbation of rash is common in patients with atopic dermatitis and has diverse aetiology. We describe a patient with atopic dermatitis who developed a pruritic, burning and weeping rash. The ...
Amantadine is an N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor agonist with secondary dopaminergic activity that is used to treat Parkinson's disease-related dyskinesia and to treat fatigue in multiple sclerosis. It ...
Despite decades of research, we do not definitively know how people sometimes see things that are not there. Eight models of complex visual hallucinations have been published since 2000, including Dea...
At least one in four persons with bipolar disorder (BD) are estimated to have experienced auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) or heard voices at some point. Yet few studies have investigated AVH in d...
Twenty-one participants diagnosed with BD were recruited across two international sites in the UK and Australia. All participants underwent a structured clinical interview to verify psychiatric diagno...
AVH experienced by this BD sample were broadly similar in form and content to characterisations reported in the schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) in prior literature, with some exceptions includi...
The study highlights possibly subtle differences in the experience of AVH in BD, including the potential influence of mood congruence as a pertinent clinical feature. Further research into these diffe...