Hallucination

High school (ages 12+)
Thinking & Learning

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/hallucination

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the primary associated conditions?Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, substance-induced psychosis
2. What is the key neurotransmitters involved?Dopamine, serotonin, glutamate
3. How can a hallucination happen?Hallucinations can happen when parts of the brain that process senses aren’t working right, or when brain chemicals change because of illness, fever, sleep loss, or medicine.
4. Are hallucinations the same as dreams?Hallucinations are different from dreams because they happen while you are awake and feel like real things, not just in your mind while sleeping.

Aberrant Salience: The brain assigning excessive importance to internal or external stimuli inappropriately.
Reality Monitoring: The cognitive process of distinguishing between internally generated thoughts and external sensory information.
Neurotransmitter: Chemical messengers in the brain that transmit signals between nerve cells.