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SUMMARY:Hearing and seeing things that are not there: Quantifying brain st
 ructure related to hallucinations - Colleen Rollins (Department of Psychia
 try\, University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20190207T131000Z
DTEND:20190207T140000Z
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CONTACT:Miguel Anaya
DESCRIPTION:Hallucinations involve perceptions of stimuli that do not exis
 t in the physical world\, such as hearing voices or seeing visions. Halluc
 inations occur not only in schizophrenia\, but are experienced by people w
 ith other psychiatric disorders\, neurological and neurodegenerative condi
 tions\, and among the general population. Advances in neuroimaging technol
 ogy have given insights into the brain structures and functions that are a
 ssociated with hallucinations\, but our understanding of why people experi
 ence hallucinations remains incomplete. In this talk I will explore the br
 ain mechanisms underlying hallucinations\, the role of reality\nmonitoring
  - the cognitive capacity to distinguish between internally- and externall
 y-generated information\, and how understanding the brain basis of halluci
 nations can contribute to theoretical accounts of hallucinations\, optimiz
 e treatment strategies\, and inform how we perceive our external world and
  determine what is real.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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