Visual Hallucinations as Incidental Negative Effects of Virtual Reality on Parkinson's Disease Patients: A Link with Neurodegeneration?

We followed up a series of 23 Parkinson's disease (PD) patients who had performed an immersive virtual reality (VR) protocol eight years before. On that occasion, six patients incidentally described visual hallucinations (VH) with occurrences of images not included in the virtual environment. C...

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Autores principales: Albani, Giovanni, Pedroli, Elisa, Cipresso, Pietro, Bulla, Daniel, Cimolin, Veronica, Thomas, Astrid, Mauro, Alessandro, Riva, Giuseppe
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Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4441992/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26064775
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/194629
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author Albani, Giovanni
Pedroli, Elisa
Cipresso, Pietro
Bulla, Daniel
Cimolin, Veronica
Thomas, Astrid
Mauro, Alessandro
Riva, Giuseppe
author_facet Albani, Giovanni
Pedroli, Elisa
Cipresso, Pietro
Bulla, Daniel
Cimolin, Veronica
Thomas, Astrid
Mauro, Alessandro
Riva, Giuseppe
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description We followed up a series of 23 Parkinson's disease (PD) patients who had performed an immersive virtual reality (VR) protocol eight years before. On that occasion, six patients incidentally described visual hallucinations (VH) with occurrences of images not included in the virtual environment. Curiously, in the following years, only these patients reported the appearance of VH later in their clinical history, while the rest of the group did not. Even considering the limited sample size, we may argue that VR immersive systems can induce unpleasant effects in PD patients who are predisposed to a cognitive impairment.
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spelling pubmed-44419922015-06-10 Visual Hallucinations as Incidental Negative Effects of Virtual Reality on Parkinson's Disease Patients: A Link with Neurodegeneration? Albani, Giovanni Pedroli, Elisa Cipresso, Pietro Bulla, Daniel Cimolin, Veronica Thomas, Astrid Mauro, Alessandro Riva, Giuseppe Parkinsons Dis Research Article We followed up a series of 23 Parkinson's disease (PD) patients who had performed an immersive virtual reality (VR) protocol eight years before. On that occasion, six patients incidentally described visual hallucinations (VH) with occurrences of images not included in the virtual environment. Curiously, in the following years, only these patients reported the appearance of VH later in their clinical history, while the rest of the group did not. Even considering the limited sample size, we may argue that VR immersive systems can induce unpleasant effects in PD patients who are predisposed to a cognitive impairment. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-05-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4441992/ /pubmed/26064775 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/194629 Text en Copyright © 2015 Giovanni Albani et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Research Article
Albani, Giovanni
Pedroli, Elisa
Cipresso, Pietro
Bulla, Daniel
Cimolin, Veronica
Thomas, Astrid
Mauro, Alessandro
Riva, Giuseppe
Visual Hallucinations as Incidental Negative Effects of Virtual Reality on Parkinson's Disease Patients: A Link with Neurodegeneration?
title Visual Hallucinations as Incidental Negative Effects of Virtual Reality on Parkinson's Disease Patients: A Link with Neurodegeneration?
title_full Visual Hallucinations as Incidental Negative Effects of Virtual Reality on Parkinson's Disease Patients: A Link with Neurodegeneration?
title_fullStr Visual Hallucinations as Incidental Negative Effects of Virtual Reality on Parkinson's Disease Patients: A Link with Neurodegeneration?
title_full_unstemmed Visual Hallucinations as Incidental Negative Effects of Virtual Reality on Parkinson's Disease Patients: A Link with Neurodegeneration?
title_short Visual Hallucinations as Incidental Negative Effects of Virtual Reality on Parkinson's Disease Patients: A Link with Neurodegeneration?
title_sort visual hallucinations as incidental negative effects of virtual reality on parkinson's disease patients: a link with neurodegeneration?
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4441992/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26064775
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/194629
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