"String Hallucinations": Multimodal Tactile and Visual Hallucinations in Parkinson's Disease.

ABSTRACT: The aim of this work was to report on 7 patients presenting a distinctive form of multimodal (tactile and visual) hallucinations for which the term "string hallucinations" is proposed. Having observed a patient interacting with imaginary strips of skin in his hands at our movement disorders unit, we prospectively studied PD patients and caregivers over a 6-month period using a semistructured interview addressed to this particular phenomenon. Demographic characteristics as well as cognitive and motor function were assessed. A total of 7 of 164 PD patients (4.3%) observed during the study period had string hallucinations. One patient was cognitively intact and the other 6 had some degree of cognitive impairment. Common to the phenomenology of the hallucinations was the unpleasant feeling and

SUBMITTER: Perez-Perez J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6353331 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature