The Neuroscience of Hallucinations

Part I: The Basics of Hallucinations.- 1. An epistemological approach: history of concepts and ideas about hallucinations.- 2. Hallucinatory experiences in non-clinical populations.- 3. Hallucinations and other sensory deceptions in psychiatric disorders.- 4. Hallucinations associated with neurological disorders and sensory loss.- 5. Standardized assessment of hallucinations.- Part II: Cognitive Models of Hallucinations.- 6. The 'bottom-up' and 'top-down' components of the hallucinatory phenomenon.- 7. Speech processing and auditory verbal hallucinations.- 8. The role of memory retrieval and emotional salience in the emergence of hallucinations.- 9. Misattribution models (I): meta-cognitive believes and hallucinations.- 10. Misattributions models (II): source monitoring in hallucinating schizophrenia subjects.- 11. Time perception and discrimination in individuals suffering from hallucinations.- Part III: Neurobiological and Computational Models of Hallucinations.- 12. A neurodevelopmental perspective on hallucinations.- 13. Candidate genes involved in the expression of psychotic symptoms: a focus on hallucinations.- 14. Animal models and hallucinogenic drugs.- 15. Cannabis and hallucinations: studies in human subjects.- 16. Computational models of hallucinations.- Part IV: Brain-Imaging Insight into Hallucinations.- 17. Electrophysiological exploration of hallucinations (EEG, MEG).- 18. Structural imaging of the 'hallucinating' brain in schizophrenia.- 19. Functional brain imaging of auditory hallucinations: from self-monitoring deficits to co-opted neural resources.- 20. Functional brain imaging of hallucinations: symptom capture studies.- 21. Brain functioning when the voices are silent: aberrant default-mode in auditory verbal hallucinations.- 22. Connectivity issues of the 'hallucinating' brain.- Part V: Innovative Therapeutic Approaches of Hallucinations.- 23. Beyond monotherapy: the HIT-story.- 24. The psychopharmacology of hallucinations: ironic insights

Renaud Jardri, M.D., Ph.D., is a child psychiatrist at the Lille University Medical Centre, France and associate faculty at the Group for Neural Theory, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.

Arnaud Cachia, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in Neurosciences at Université Paris Descartes, affiliated with the Center for Psychiatry and Neurosciences (INSERM, Ste-Anne Hospital) and the Laboratory for the Psychology of Child Development and Education (CNRS, Sorbonne).

Pierre Thomas, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at the Lille North of France University School of Medicine and Co-Research Director of the "Hallucinations & Delusions" team in the Functional Neuroscience and Disorders Laboratory (Lille, France).

Delphine Pins, Ph.D., is a CNRS researcher at the Functional Neurosciences and Disorders Laboratory (Lille, France), where she is Co-Research Director of the "Hallucinations & Delusions" team.

"Psychiatrists, neurologists, neuropsychologists, cognitive neuroscientists, clinical psychologists and pharmacologists will welcome The Neuroscience of Hallucinations as a vital guide to the current state and promising future of their shared field. All researchers who are interested in the brain and behavior will expand their knowledge base reading this superb book. Neuroscience of Hallucinations represents an excellent, unique book, which is a real treat for all experts frm the field of neuroscience, clinicians as well as basic scientists." (Prof. Dalibor Karlovic, Alcoholism and Psychiatry Research, Vol. 51 (2), 2015)

"This volume provides a unique, comprehensive, multifaceted perspective on hallucinations. The editors have brought together an international cast of authors to provide 27 chapters, organized into 5 parts. ... Clinicians may particularly enjoy learning more about the assessment of hallucinations. ... The Neuroscience of Hallucinations provides a welcome and valuable collection of works on hallucinatory experience that is unprecedented in its scope." (Robert M. Bilder, Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, Vol. 26 (5), August, 2013)

"This superb book summarizes the state of neuroscience of the fascinating phenomenon of hallucinations. ... this is a welcome addition to psychiatry and clinical neuroscience. ... the editors and chapter authors have produced a brilliant review of the latest research in this burgeoning area. ... psychiatrists, psychologists, neuroscientists, and graduate students would benefit from this timely and comprehensive review. ... All researchers who are interested in the brain and behavior will expand their knowledge base reading this superb book." (Michael Joel Schrift, Doody's Book Reviews, May, 2013)