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Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat<\/i>, recently released a new<\/p>\n

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book entitled Hallucinations<\/i>. In this book, Sacks discusses different types of organic<\/p>\n

hallucinations, or\u00a0\u00a0hallucinations that occur outside of a primary psychotic disorder.<\/p>\n

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Sacks uses his decades of experience in the field of neurology to describe various forms of hallucinations. For example, did you know that experiences of perceptual disturbances in the form of hallucinations can occur in the geriatric population who experience vision loss? This experience is called Charles Bonnet Syndrome and can be extremely scary for those experiencing it. Many of these individuals would be incorrectly diagnosed with a form of psychosis. In reality, these individuals\u2019 brains are \u201cfilling in the gaps\u201d in their loss of vision.<\/p>\n

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Danielle M. McNeill, M.S., M.A.
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