Hippos in flight, doors drifting downstream and a fraught audition for Strictly Come Dancing are just some of the hallucinations which Grandpa had that I remember. All my life I had known him to be a ...

Not seeing the left (or right) side can occur with occipital or parietal lobe damage. In my last post, I mentioned how the parietal lobes help to focus attention, and that it is asymmetric. Although ...

Robin Williams had been suffering from Lewy Body Dementia, a form of dementia that can cause hallucinations, which may have led the actor to commit suicide. When Williams committed suicide earlier ...

It happens. You’re mid-sentence when you realize you totally forgot what you’re saying, or you’re driving to work—on a route you’ve traveled 100 times—but you take a wrong turn. The truth is that ...

“People with Alzheimer’s dementia tend to maintain their social graces until relatively late in the disease,” Duxbury said. “They can make small talk and be polite and sit next to someone and ...

This time last year, Hayley, 57, was sectioned and admitted to a psychiatric unit. She was suffering from intense psychosis, paranoia and depression. Her behavior had changed so drastically that she ...