Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 156, Issue 3 , Pages 269-273, 15 December 2007

Visual hallucinations in schizophrenia investigated with functional magnetic resonance imaging

  • Viola Oertel

      Affiliations

    • Neurophysiology and Neuroimaging Laboratory, Deparment of Psychiatry, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
    • Deparment of Cognitive Neuroscience, University Maastricht, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Oertel is to be contacted at Klinik fuer Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik, Klinikum der Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet, D-60590 Frankfurt, Germany. Linden, School of Psychology, University of Wales, Bangor, Adeilad Brigantia, Penrallt Road, Gwynedd LL57 2AS, United Kingdom.
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  • Anna Rotarska-Jagiela

      Affiliations

    • Neurophysiology and Neuroimaging Laboratory, Deparment of Psychiatry, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
    • Deparment of Anatomy III, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
    • ,
  • Vincent G van de Ven

      Affiliations

    • Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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  • Corinna Haenschel

      Affiliations

    • Neurophysiology and Neuroimaging Laboratory, Deparment of Psychiatry, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
    • Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    • ,
  • Konrad Maurer

      Affiliations

    • Neurophysiology and Neuroimaging Laboratory, Deparment of Psychiatry, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
    • ,
  • David E.J. Linden

      Affiliations

    • Neurophysiology and Neuroimaging Laboratory, Deparment of Psychiatry, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
    • School of Psychology, University of Wales, Bangor, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Oertel is to be contacted at Klinik fuer Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik, Klinikum der Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet, D-60590 Frankfurt, Germany. Linden, School of Psychology, University of Wales, Bangor, Adeilad Brigantia, Penrallt Road, Gwynedd LL57 2AS, United Kingdom.

Received 16 March 2007; received in revised form 8 September 2007; accepted 9 September 2007.

Abstract 

We investigated a 27-year old patient with paranoid schizophrenia. Brain activity related to visual hallucinations was found in higher visual areas corresponding to the content of the hallucinations (faces, bodies, scenes) and the hippocampus. We assume that the hippocampal activity is related to the retrieval of visual images from memory and that sensory cortex activity is related to the vividness of the perceptual experience.

Keywords: Schizophrenia, Hallucinations, Visual, Functional magnetic resonance imaging

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PII: S0925-4927(07)00181-3

doi:10.1016/j.pscychresns.2007.09.004

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 156, Issue 3 , Pages 269-273, 15 December 2007

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