| Literature DB >> 14972758 |
Lotfi B Merabet1, Masahito Kobayashi, Jason Barton, Alvaro Pascual-Leone.
Abstract
Abstract We report a patient with visual hallucinations and illusions along with an associated visual field defect after bilateral ischemic damage to his occipital visual cortex. These hallucinations were long-standing and of both simple and complex (well-formed) type. Application of low frequency (1 Hz) repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) to the occipital cortex led to a complete cessation of visual hallucinatory symptoms. The use of TMS to probe the neurophysiology, and possibly alleviate, visual hallucinatory experiences is discussed.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 14972758 DOI: 10.1076/neur.9.5.436.16557
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurocase ISSN: 1355-4794 Impact factor: 0.881