Distribution of hallucinations in the population
@article{Tien2004DistributionOH, title={Distribution of hallucinations in the population}, author={Allen Y. Tien}, journal={Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology}, year={2004}, volume={26}, pages={287-292} }
SummaryHallucinations are often manifestations of severe psychiatric conditions seen clinically. However, unde is known about the distribution of incident hallucinations in the community, nor whether there has been a change over the past century. Data from the NIMH Epidemiologic Catchment Area Program is used here to provide descriptive information on the community distribution, and data from the Sidgewick study from a century earlier provides comparative information. In the ECA data, the…
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