Hallucinations Research in a Time of Crisis

Across the globe, the coronavirus pandemic has had deep and persistent impacts on mental as well as physical health. Hallucinations researchers must work together to address a number of urgent new challenges, including to understand the effects of lockdown and social isolation on susceptibility to unusual experiences such as auditory and visual hallucinations, particular vulnerabilities to such experiences among older people, and non-veridical experiences of loved ones who —tragically and increasingly as a result of this terrible virus—are no longer there.
Source: Schizophrenia Bulletin - Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research