Many people welcome hallucinations and invite this experience (e.g., religious experiences, through the use of drugs). Beyond schizophrenia, there are so many conditions that are associated with ...

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 ...