hallucinations/stroke

We describe three patients who experienced simple and complex visual hallucinations, palinopsia and palinacusis in the immediate post-stroke period following parietal and occipital stroke. The hallucinations and palinopsia occurred in a defective or a blind visual field in two of the three patients.

The incidence, underlying physiopathology, features and association with lesion topography of visual hallucinations in acute stroke have scarcely been investigated. Patients with a diagnosis of acute stroke (ischaemic or haemorrhagic) in any vascular territory, admitted within 24 h after the onset

Auditory hallucinations are uncommon phenomena which can be directly caused by acute stroke, mostly described after lesions of the brain stem, very rarely reported after cortical strokes. The purpose of this study is to determine the frequency of this phenomenon. In a cross sectional study, 641

BACKGROUND Stroke of the corpus callosum is uncommon, known to be associated with disturbance of higher brain function including hemifacial metamorphosia, but has never been reported to cause visual hallucinations. METHODS We report on a case of a 71-year-old woman who presented to the emergency

A patient developed visual hallucinations following a left-sided cerebrovascular accident (CVA). Brain SPECT using Tc-99m HMPAO demonstrated increased perfusion at the biparieto-occipital lobes. Following antiepileptic medication, repeat brain SPECT showed interval decrease in perfusion in the same

We reported a case of an elderly female patient affected by musical hallucinations (MHs) as the unique symptom of a right temporal ischemic stroke. A functional magnetic resonance imaging examination was performed in the patient and in five age- and sex-matched normal controls (NC) to detect the

Brain imaging studies have identified multiple neuronal networks and circuits in the brain with altered functioning in patients with schizophrenia. These include the hippocampo-cerebello-cortical circuit, the prefrontal-thalamic-cerebellar circuit, functional integration in the bilateral caudate

BACKGROUND Visual hallucinations that arise following vision loss stem from aberrant functional activity in visual cortices and an imbalance of activity across associated cortical and subcortical networks subsequent to visual pathway damage. We sought to determine if structural changes in white

We here report paradoxical hand function recovery in a 61-year-old male tetra-paretic chronic patient following a stroke of the brainstem (with highly degraded right and abolished left-hand finger flexion/extension disabling him to manipulate objects) who experienced insidious auditory

Hearing disturbances are not commonly reported in stroke or transient ischemic attack. We describe a case of a 60-year-old man with fluctuating brainstem ischemia with basilar artery thrombosis where the patient has consistently described hearing "white noise," bilaterally becoming progressively

have been reported in association with psychiatric diseases, brain stem strokes, deafness, degenerative diseases, intoxications, pharmacologic agents, and epilepsy. We present a patient who in the absence of these disorders developed musical hallucinations from an infarction of the right hemisphere

OBJECTIVE To investigate the efficacy of multiday repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to the occipital cortex in a patient with continuous visual phosphene hallucinations for more than 2 years following occipital stroke. METHODS Low-frequency rTMS (1 Hz) was applied to the lesion

The thalamus has been described as a "relay station" for sensory information from most sensory modalities projecting to cortical areas. Therefore injury to the thalamus may result in multimodal sensory and motor deficits. In the present study, a 61-year-old woman suffered a right thalamic cerebral

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been explored for treatment of several neuropsychiatric disorders. For tDCS use in structural brain lesions there is some evidence from motor stroke rehabilitation and post-stroke depression. Here we report the application of tDCS in a woman