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 into mechanisms of action.- 25. Neuromodulation techniques to treat hallucinations.- 26. The future of brain stimulation to treat hallucinations.- 27. Perspectives in brain-imaging and computer-assisted technologies for the treatment of hallucinations.- Conclusion: Key-issues for future research in the neuroscience of hallucinations.