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SUMMARY:BMI Progress Reports 2021 // Prof. Blanke's Lab: E. Blondiaux: Rob
 ot-induced specific hallucinations in health and Parkinson's disease
DTSTART:20210901T121500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:E. Blondiaux\nHallucinations are defined as aberrant perceptua
 l experiences without the corresponding external stimuli and despite being
  present in various clinical populations\, their underlying mechanisms are
  poorly understood\, also related to the lack of methods to induce halluci
 nations under experimental conditions outside the clinical setting. In thi
 s talk\, I will focus on a specific hallucination called presence hallucin
 ation (PH\; defined as the vivid sensation that someone is nearby although
  no one is present) and present how we developed a method to induce PH in 
 healthy subjects and patients using a robotics-based approach that applies
  conflicting sensorimotor conflicts. I will present this new method and pr
 ocedure as well as brain imaging results (using an MRI-compatible device) 
 in healthy subjects and give an overview of the results obtained by transl
 ating this approach to several clinical populations\, especially in patien
 ts with Parkinson’s disease\, where hallucinations are disturbing and fr
 equent non-motor symptoms\, which constitute a major risk factor for psych
 osis and dementia.\n 
LOCATION:Online
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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