Background: Hallucinations are prevalent in schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders and may have severe consequences for the affected patients. Antipsychotic drug trials that specifically ...

Background: Visual hallucinations occur in various neurological diseases, but are most prominent in Lewy body dementia, Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia. The lifetime prevalence of visual ...

To receive a diagnosis of schizophrenia, a person must experience at least one symptom of hallucination, delusion, or disorganized speech for a significant portion of time during a 1-month period.

A diagnosis is usually made once the condition progresses to first-episode psychosis, a symptom of schizophrenia that involves hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that aren’t there ...