npj Parkinson s Disease
October 30, 2026
Neza Vehar, Jevita Potheegadoo, Nathalie Heidi Meyer et al.
Abstract Presence hallucinations (PH), a non-veridical perceptions of someone appearing around you, are frequent symptoms in Parkinson’s disease (PD). They belong to the group of minor hallucinations, predicting later appearance of structured visual hallucinations and PD psychosis. Despite their elevated frequency and negative clinical outcomes, differences in PH subtypes have not been...
medRxiv
September 3, 2026
Fosco Bernasconi, Sara Stampacchia, Lucas Burget et al.
preprint
Dopamine replacement therapy (DRT) alleviates motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease (PD) but can trigger hallucinations in a subset of patients, yet the neural basis of this selective vulnerability is unknown. Hallucinations are among the most disabling non-motor symptoms of PD, linked to social isolation, dementia and institutionalization. Using a validated robotic paradigm to induce and...
medRxiv
July 10, 2026
Lada Kohoutová, Jevita Potheegadoo, Léa F Duong Phan Thanh et al.
preprint
Background: Hallucinations, ranging from minor (MH) to structured, are a common non-motor symptom in Parkinson's disease (PD). Structured hallucinations have been associated with altered functional connectivity (FC) between dorsal/ventral attention (DAN, VAN) and default mode (DMN) networks. As structured hallucinations are linked to rapid cognitive decline and MH are often viewed as their...
Cortex
October 2025
Nathalie H Meyer, Mariana Babo-Rebelo, Jevita Potheegadoo et al.
Episodic autobiographical memory (EAM) is a building block of self-consciousness, involving recollection and subjective re-experiencing of personal past experiences. Any life episode is originally encoded by a subject within a body. This raises the possibility that memory encoding is shaped by bodily self-consciousness (BSC), a basic form of self-consciousness arising from the multisensory and...