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Most patients with schizophrenia suffer from various types of hallucinations, which commonly produce distress, functional disability or behavioral dyscontrol.
When other types of hallucinations (e.g. olfactory) were present, it was always in combination with auditory hallucinations.
Lower levels of hypocretin or orexin may cause affected individuals to suffer from different types of hallucinations like: Hypnagogic hallucinations.
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For 13 patients, we had insufficient information on the type of hallucinations they were having.
Within the DLB-hallu group, we divided patients into three subgroups according to the type of hallucination.
Negative outcome was not associated with a particular type of hallucination content (pcorr>0.05 for patterns, faces, people, animals and objects).
However, we included patients with another type of hallucination (n = 6) if they were associated with VHs.
We used a Kruskal-Wallis test to compare the three subgroups according to the type of hallucination.
The commonest type of hallucination was the audio form 75% (n= 47), followed by the visual 54% (n=34) and tactile 7.9% (n=5) forms.
We did not find any significant difference between the three subgroups according to the type of hallucination on the basis of clinical data (age, fluctuations, extrapyramidal syndrome) or on the basis of neuropsychological tests, except for direct digit span test (4 in the group 2 versus 5.75 in the group 3, P = 0.033).
Roughly 50% of patients suffer varying degrees and types of apathy, hallucinations, sleep disturbance, and impulse control disorders.
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