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Thalamus, a theory of everything?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2005

Walter Massing
Walter Massing*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychosocial Medicine, University of Göttingen, Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, D-37075Göttingen, Germany
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Abstract:

Hallucinations do not originate in a single region of the brain, the thalamus, and cannot be traced back to a single pathological mechanism. They emerge from the complex interaction of several brain regions, and are not necessarily the result of sensory impairment or the effect of a defective filter. In the case of schizophrenia, hallucinations are accessory symptoms, in Bleuler's sense, and are thus not central to this disorder.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 6 , December 2004 , pp. 800
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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