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Testing an aetiological model of visual hallucinations in Parkinson's disease

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The exact pathogenesis of visual hallucinations in Parkinson's disease is not known but an integrated model has been proposed that includes impaired visual input and central visual processing, impaired brainstem regulation of sleep–wake cycle with fluctuating vigilance, intrusion of rapid eye movement dream imagery into wakefulness and emergence of internally generated imagery, cognitive dysfunction and influence of dopaminergic drugs.
In a clinical study, we assessed motor and non-mot...

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Peer reviewed

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10.1093/brain/awr225

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Clinical Neurosciences
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Journal:
Brain More from this journal
Volume:
134
Issue:
11
Pages:
3299-3309
Publication date:
2011-11-01
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EISSN:
1460-2156
ISSN:
0006-8950
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pubs:579199
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uuid:7a65e966-5a2c-46cb-b51d-d3d973afa9dc
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pubs:579199
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579199
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2015-12-09

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