A Dictionary of Hallucinations

Akinetopsia

Akinetopsia (from Greek akinesia 'absence of movement' and opsis 'seeing'), also known as cerebral akinetopsia or motion blindness, is a term introduced by Semir Zeki to…

Σύνδρομο παραληρητικής παραγνώρισης

Το σύνδρομο παραληρητικής παραγνώρισης είναι υπερώνυμο που εισήχθη από τον Χριστοδούλου (στο βιβλίο του The Delusional Misidentification Syndromes, Karger, Basel, 1986) γι…

Delusional misidentification syndrome

Delusional misidentification syndrome is an umbrella term, introduced by Christodoulou (in his book The Delusional Misidentification Syndromes, Karger, Basel, 1986) for…

Jamais vu

In psychology, jamais vu, a French loanword meaning "never seen", is the phenomenon of experiencing a situation that one recognizes in some fashion, but that nonetheless…