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 ...

and many others with schizophrenia, deserved – this time it came with four paws and a tail. Luna, a Jack Russell terrier mix, ...

or feel things that aren’t actually there—such as voices or visual images. For people with paranoid schizophrenia, delusions ...

People have a lot of misconceptions about what the brain's left and right hemispheres do, but one well-known aspect of this division may be even more true than people realize: The brain not only ...

The FDA has accepted the new drug application for the antipsychotic Bysanti and set a goal date for February 21, 2026.

Previous studies suggest that schizophrenia not only reduces the volume of gray matter in the brains of those affected, but that it also leads to loss of retinal tissue. However, whether these ...

Scientific literature has shown that patients with multiple sclerosis and schizophrenia lose myelin (called demyelination), leaving part of the axons "unplugged" and causing damage to brain function.

Robin Emsley is Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry in Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa. He holds Doctoral degrees in Medicine and in ...

MEDLINE and EMBASE searches were performed using the search terms, schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder and visual hallucinations and acetylcholinesterase inhibitors or donepezil or Aricept ...