High impact information on Illusions

• We found robust activations in cortical motor areas [areas 4a, 4p, 6; dorsal premotor cortex (PMD) and bilateral supplementary motor area (SMA)] and ipsilateral cerebellum during kinesthetic illusions (illusion-vibration) [1].
• BACKGROUND: Previous reports document visual illusions resembling hallucinogen persisting perception disorder (HPPD) after risperidone treatment in patients with histories of previous LSD exposure [2].
• Posthallucinogen-like visual illusions (palinopsia) with risperidone in a patient without previous hallucinogen exposure: possible relation to serotonin 5HT2a receptor blockade [2].
• The results showed that vibration of the wrist flexor muscle group induced both a kinesthetic illusion of wrist extension and a motor response in the extensor carpi radialis muscles [3].
• CONCLUSION: Tactile receptive communication is possible through the use of a mechanical device used to create tactile illusions [4].

Chemical compound and disease context of Illusions

• Prolonged visual illusions induced by mefloquine (Lariam): a case report [5].
• Auditory illusion analogous to Baldwin illusion redux [6].
• Recently, Glover has challenged this position and has suggested that movement planning, but not movement execution is susceptible to visual illusions [7].

Gene context of Illusions

• Visual illusions in computed tomography: phenomena related to Mach effect [8].
• Scientists agree that Aristotle in his Parva Naturalia was the first to report a visual illusion known as the motion aftereffect (MAE) [9].
• First, their representation by Tyndall [1867 Sound. A Course of Eight Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain (London: Longmans, Green)] in a book on sound resulted in the description of a visual illusion, the Hermann grid [10].
• Necker cube and autokinetic illusions after awakening from REM and NONREM sleep: lack of effect [11].

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