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Hallucinations involve sensing things while awake that appear to be real, but instead have been created by the mind.

Dr. Keegan Duchicela reviewed this

16 year experience in family medicine

Is a type of:

Neurologic problems

How long it usually lasts:

Chronic (lasts years to lifelong)

How common it is:

Common

Body locations

Brain

Types of

Auditory hallucination
Visual hallucination

Is Symptom of

Schizophrenia
Condition
Alcohol withdrawal syndrome
Condition
Acute schizophrenia
Condition
Epilepsy (temporal lobe)
Condition
Epilepsy
Condition
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Is a Side Effect of

Nortriptyline
Copaxone
Cordarone
Cyclogyl
Darvon N
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