microptic hallucination

microptic hallucination
   Also known as microscopic hallucination and diminutive visual hallucination. The term microptic hallucination is indebted to the Greek words mikros (small) and opsis (seeing). It refers to a type of *visual hallucination in which the hallucinated object is perceived as disproportion-ally small in comparison with the 'background' of regular sense perceptions. A subtype of the microptic hallucination, characterized by the perception of disproportionally small human figures, is known as a *lilliputian hallucination. Microptic hallucinations may present as an isolated symptom, as part of an * aura, or as part of a cluster of symptoms called the *Alice in Wonderland syndrome. Etiologically, they are associated with varying conditions such as epileptic seizures, migraine, * delirium, * delirium tremens, alcohol withdrawal, toxoplasmosis or typhoid infections, mesencephalic lesions, * Charles Bonnet syndrome, and intoxication with * hallucinogens such as LSD and mescaline. In individuals with a clinical diagnosis of schizophrenia they would seem to be relatively rare. The term microptic hallucination is used in opposition to the term *macroptic hallucination. It should not be confused with *micropsia.
   References
   Ey, H. (2004). Traité des hallucinations. Tome 1. Paris: Claude Tchou pour la Bibliothèque des Introuvables.
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