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Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) of the Visual Cortex with Wide-View Retinotopic Stimulation
Published on: December 8, 2023
Visual hallucinations in schizophrenia investigated with functional magnetic resonance imaging
Viola Oertel1, Anna Rotarska-Jagiela, Vincent G van de Ven
1Neurophysiology and Neuroimaging Laboratory, Deparment of Psychiatry, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Viola.Oertel@kgu.de
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.
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