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Cognition in relation to non-auditory or multisensory hallucinations in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: A scoping review.
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Centre for Mental Health & Brain Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia; Psychiatry, St Vincent's Mental Health Service, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Department of Psychology, Alfred Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Multisensory hallucinations refer to unusual perceptual events in the absence of corresponding stimuli, experienced in two or more sensory modalities. Within the schizophrenia-spectrum disorder literature, the cognitive correlates of multisensory and non-auditory hallucinations remain largely unknown. This scoping review aimed to map and synthesise research that explored relationships between cognition and non-auditory and multisensory hallucinations in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders.
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Department of Anesthesiology, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
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[Diagnosis and treatment of middle ear myoclonic tinnitus].
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Center for Radiology and Magnetic Resonance Imaging, University Clinical Centre of Serbia, Pasterova No. 2, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
Radical esophagectomy remains the only potentially curative option in the treatment of esophageal cancer. However, this procedure is burdened with high morbidity and mortality rates, even in high-volume centers. A tracheo- or bronchoesophageal fistula (TBF) is rare but is one of the most difficult life-threatening complications following an esophagectomy for cancer treatment.
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