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SUMMARY:DLN: Ghosts in the bedroom: Why do visual hallucinations happen in
  Parkinson’s disease?
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Rimona Weil\nVisual hallucinations are common and distressi
 ng in Parkinson’s disease. Patients nearly always describe seeing people
  or animals and they are more common in the evening and at night. I will p
 resent some of our recent work examining mechanisms of visual hallucinatio
 ns\, in particular considering them in a Bayesian framework and the eviden
 ce for over-weighting visual priors. I will also ask why hallucinations ar
 e particularly common in Parkinson’s disease\, but far less common in ot
 her neurological conditions.\n\n\nBio\nDr Rimona Weil is a Principal Inves
 tigator at the UCL Dementia Research Centre and Consultant Neurologist at 
 the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery\, Queen Square. She l
 eads a Wellcome-funded longitudinal research programme investigating demen
 tia and hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease using neuroimaging and pla
 sma markers. Alongside this\, she leads a clinical service managing patien
 ts with Parkinson’s disease dementia and Dementia with Lewy Bodies.\n\nD
 r Weil studied medicine at Downing College\, Cambridge\, followed by Unive
 rsity College London. She trained in Neurology at the Royal Free Hospital 
 and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. Her PhD research
  was at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging\, UCL\, where she exami
 ned the integration of visual signals in the healthy and damaged brain. Sh
 e was awarded a post-doctoral UCL Excellence Fellowship to study visual ch
 anges in Parkinson’s disease\, followed by a Wellcome Clinical Research 
 Career Development Fellowship. Her ultimate aim is to develop treatments t
 o slow the progression of dementia in Parkinson’s disease.\n 
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