Madeleine P Smith, Jiangxia Wang, James B Leverenz, Nathan H Heller, Susan H Magsaman, Arnold Bakker, Cyrus B Zabetian, Debbie W Tsuang, Odinachi Oguh, Carol F Lippa, Oscar L Lopez, Sarah B Berman, David J Irwin, Douglas R Galasko, Irene Litvan, Jori E Fleisher, James E Galvin, Andrea C Bozoki, Marwan N Sabbagh, Dylan Wint, Brenna A Cholerton, Alexander Y Pantelyat, Vidyulata Kamath
OBJECTIVE: Pareidolias represent visual illusions of meaningful objects in ambiguous stimuli. Prior research has demonstrated phenomenological similarities between pareidolias and visual hallucinations (VH) and the potential clinical utility of pareidolias in discriminating dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) from Alzheimer's dementia (ad). Though pareidolias have been linked with VH severity in DLB, the relationships between pareidolias and other neuropsychiatric symptoms have not been explored in large DLB samples...
October 8, 2023: Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology: the Official Journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists