title: Visual hallucinations in schizophrenia investigated with functional magnetic resonance imaging.
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.
authors.affiliation: Neurophysiology and Neuroimaging Laboratory, Deparment of Psychiatry, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Viola.Oertel@kgu.de
authors.forename: Viola
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Oertel
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rotarska-Jagiela
authors.forename: Vincent G
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: van de Ven
authors.forename: Corinna
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Haenschel
authors.forename: Konrad
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Maurer
authors.forename: David E J
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Linden
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology