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medicalxpress.com · 2026-09-18
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Common eye disease can cause hallucinations, but few people know it
medicalxpress.com · 2026-09-18
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Claim 1 of 4Not checkedCharles Bonnet syndrome causes vivid visual hallucinations in people who have lost much of their sight, and many people do not talk about it because they fear dementia or a mental illness.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 2 of 4Not checkedStudies suggest Charles Bonnet syndrome affects about 1 in 6 people with retinal disease or major vision loss and is more common in people with the worst sight.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 3 of 4Not checkedCharles Bonnet syndrome most often occurs with age-related macular degeneration, a common eye disease that damages the macula and affects about 11 million people in the United States.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 4 of 4Not checkedBrain imaging research by Dominic ffytche has linked different kinds of hallucinations to specific parts of the brain's visual system, and the article says that when eye signals stop coming in, deprived cortex becomes more excitable and can fire on its own, causing hallucinations.View evidenceHide evidence
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PubMed, Europe PMC, Crossref · 15 candidate papers
Charles Bonnet syndrome in patients referred for cataract surgery.
Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology = Albrecht Von Graefes Archiv Fur Klinische Und Experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2026 · PubMed, Europe PMC
Charles Bonnet syndrome in age-related macular degeneration – prevalence and clinical features in a Portuguese population
Revista Brasileira De Oftalmologia · 2023 · Crossref
Filling in the Blind Spot: Integrating Charles Bonnet Syndrome Screening in Ophthalmology.
Clinical Ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025 · PubMed, Europe PMC
The prevalence and clinical characteristics of Charles Bonnet Syndrome in Danish patients with neovascular age‐related macular degeneration
Acta Ophthalmologica · 2012 · Crossref
Addressing chronic visual hallucination by multimodal retinal imaging: a CBS case.
Therapeutic Advances in Ophthalmology · 2025 · PubMed
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