Weil, R;
Zarkali, A;
Lees, A;
(2019)
Flickering stimuli do not reliably induce visual hallucinations in Parkinson's disease.
Journal of Parkinson's Disease
, 9
(3)
pp. 631-635.
10.3233/JPD-191635.
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Abstract
Visual hallucinations are a common and often distressing feature of Parkinson’s disease; they are ephemeral and capricious, making them difficult to study but tend to be more prominent in dim illumination. Flickering stimuli can induce simple hallucinations even in healthy individuals. We tested a stroboscope and an equivalent full-screen flickering stimulus in 16 participants: 7 patients with Parkinson’s and habitual visual hallucinations, 6 Parkinson’s patients without hallucinations and 3 controls. Both flicker sources induced varied geometrical hallucinations in 4 participants (25%) and complex hallucinations in 1 but neither induced typical Parkinson’s-associated hallucinations.
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