A contribution to classification of hallucinations

Psychopathology. 1990;23(2):97-105. doi: 10.1159/000284645.

Abstract

Proceeding from the hypothesis that auditory hallucinations in psychotic patients have another biological basis than hallucinations provoked by hypnotic suggestion in healthy persons, we performed a symptom-comparative study by means of 99mTc-HMPAO single photon emission computed tomography. The results confirm the importance of pathogenesis in symptom-oriented psychiatric research.

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Auditory Perception / physiology*
  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Dominance, Cerebral / physiology
  • Female
  • Frontal Lobe / blood supply
  • Hallucinations / classification*
  • Hallucinations / diagnostic imaging
  • Hallucinations / psychology
  • Humans
  • Hypnosis
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Organotechnetium Compounds
  • Oximes
  • Psychotic Disorders / classification*
  • Psychotic Disorders / diagnostic imaging
  • Psychotic Disorders / psychology
  • Regional Blood Flow / physiology
  • Technetium Tc 99m Exametazime
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon

Substances

  • Organotechnetium Compounds
  • Oximes
  • Technetium Tc 99m Exametazime