Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An abnormal condition or mental state characterized by hallucination.
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- noun pathology A
mental state ofhallucination .
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- noun a mental state in which the person has continual hallucinations
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Peduncular hallucinosis occurs when perfectly sane people begin to see small, unthreatening cartoon characters, often in military attire.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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Peduncular hallucinosis occurs when perfectly sane people begin to see small, unthreatening cartoon characters, often in military attire.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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Peduncular hallucinosis occurs when perfectly sane people begin to see small, unthreatening cartoon characters, often in military attire.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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Peduncular hallucinosis occurs when perfectly sane people begin to see small, unthreatening cartoon characters, often in military attire.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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I am speaking of what I can call musical hallucinosis, involuntary music in the head.
Dr. Leo Rangell: Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border; Part 1 2008
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I am speaking of what I can call musical hallucinosis, involuntary music in the head.
Dr. Leo Rangell: Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border; Part 1 2006
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Carl Zimmer has written a great article for the Sunday Telegraph about a brain disorder called musical hallucinosis.
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In particular, he appreciates that the robust differences between dreaming and waking consciousness such as the visuomotor hallucinosis, the delusional belief that one is awake, the distinctive defects in cognition, the heightened emotionality, and the poor memory have their neural correlates in the altered neural activation pattern of REM sleep.
Being No One Tusar N Mohapatra 2005
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In particular, he appreciates that the robust differences between dreaming and waking consciousness such as the visuomotor hallucinosis, the delusional belief that one is awake, the distinctive defects in cognition, the heightened emotionality, and the poor memory have their neural correlates in the altered neural activation pattern of REM sleep.
Archive 2005-12-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005
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Experienced and knowledgeable clinicians, however, can further refine this and other amorphous categories (e.g., hallucinosis secondary to coarse brain disease) by their awareness of the scientific literature, which always runs ahead of the official nosology and offers unofficial, but clinically useful, choices (e.g., catatonia as a treatment-responsive syndrome separate from schizophrenia; various frontal and parietal lobe syndromes).
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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