Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
July 1, 2023
Daniel Collerton, James Barnes, Nico J Diederich et al.
80 citations
Despite decades of research, we do not definitively know how people sometimes see things that are not there. Eight models of complex visual hallucinations have been published since 2000, including Deafferentation, Reality Monitoring, Perception and Attention Deficit, Activation, Input, and Modulation, Hodological, Attentional Networks, Active Inference, and Thalamocortical Dysrhythmia Default...
Der Nervenarzt
April 2007
Nico J Diederich
REM or dreaming sleep is one of three states of consciousness. It is characterized by rapid eye movements, muscle atonia, desynchronized EEG, and autonomic dysregulation. A dysfunction of one of these four cardinal traits explains the primary disorders of REM sleep, including REM sleep behavior disorder and narcolepsy. Although seen in other stages, sleep apnea syndrome, coronary syndromes, and...
Movement Disorders
February 2005
Nico J Diederich, Christopher G Goetz, Glenn T Stebbins
Visual hallucinations (VH) in Parkinson's disease (PD) are a chronic complication in 30 to 60% of treated patients and have a multifaceted phenomenology. Flickering, faultive impressions, and illusionary misperceptions precede the core syndrome of stereotyped, colorful images. The patient variably recognizes these images as hallucinations, being rarely irritated or frightened and more often...
Fortschritte der Neurologie-Psychiatrie
March 2000
Nico J Diederich, V Pieri, Christopher G Goetz
Visual hallucinations (VH) are seen in about a third of all patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and are usually considered to be an early marker or clinical component of a dopaminergic psychosis. Their peculiar phenomenology has not yet been studied in a systematic manner. A semi-structured interview was performed twice in 62 PD patients. Different motoric and cognitive disease scales were...