Visual hallucinations: types

Evidence-based neurology checklist on visual hallucinations: types: Palinopsia This is persistence of visual images It is caused by drugs and non-dominant hemisphere lesions Lilliputian Brobdingnagian Autoscopy Hypnogogic and hypnocampic Psychedelic Passage Presence Peduncular hallucinosis

Palinopsia

  • This is persistence of visual images
  • It is caused by drugs and non-dominant hemisphere lesions

Lilliputian

Brobdingnagian

Autoscopy

Hypnogogic and hypnocampic

Psychedelic

Passage

Presence

Peduncular hallucinosis

References

  1. Bhidayasiri R, Waters MF, Giza CC. Neurological Differential Diagnosis. A Prioritized Approach. Blackwell publishing Massachusetts 2005 pp180-181, 190.
  2. Cohen MA, Alfonso CA, Haque MM. Lilliputian hallucinations and medical illness. Gen Hosp Psychiatry 1994; 16:141-143.
  3. Podoll K, Robinson D. Recurrent Lilliputian hallucinations as visual aura symptom in migraine. Cephalalgia 2001; 21:990-992.
  4. Chatterjee SS, Khonglah D, Mitra S, Garg K. Gulliver's world: Persistent lilliputian hallucinations as manifestation of Charles Bonnet syndrome in a case of cataract and normal pressure hydrocephalus. Indian J Psychiatry 2018; 60:358-360. 
  5. Grotstein JS. Autoscopy: the experience of oneself as a double. Hillside J Clin Psychiatry 1983; 5:259-304.
  6. And 3 more. Subscribe to see the full list

Related checklists

Loading...