Adriann Lai

The Phenomenology and Neurobiology of Visual Distortions and Hallucinations in Schizophrenia: An Update.

Frontiers in Psychiatry June 11, 2021 Steven M. Silverstein, Adriann Lai

Schizophrenia is characterized by visual distortions in ~60% of cases, and visual hallucinations (VH) in ~25-50% of cases, depending on the sample. These symptoms have received relatively little attention in the literature, perhaps due to the higher rate of auditory vs. visual hallucinations in psychotic disorders, which is the reverse of what is found in other neuropsychiatric conditions....