apophenia

Is Apophenia A Disorder?

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Is Apophenia A Disorder? Apophenia can be a normal phenomenon or an abnormal one, as in paranoid schizophrenia when the patient sees ominous patterns where there are none. Is apophenia a good thing? Apophenia is a normal human experience. It’s not usually pathological but can become so in schizophrenia, when pattern recognition and interpretation run

Is Pareidolia A Disorder?

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Is Pareidolia A Disorder? Pareidolia is a type of complex visual illusion that occurs in health but rarely reported in patients with Depression. We present a unique case of treatment-resistant Major Depressive Disorder with co-occurring complex visual disturbance that responded to augmentation of treatment with an anxiolytic. Is pareidolia related to schizophrenia? Conclusions: Unexpectedly, having