{"id":156284,"date":"2023-01-26T11:24:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T17:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/mystery-condition-causing-terrifying-hallucinations-in-one-million-britons"},"modified":"2023-01-26T11:24:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T17:24:27","slug":"mystery-condition-causing-terrifying-hallucinations-in-one-million-britons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/mystery-condition-causing-terrifying-hallucinations-in-one-million-britons","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mystery\u2019 condition causing \u2018terrifying\u2019 hallucinations in one million Britons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mystery-condition-causing-terrifying-hallucinations-in-one-million-britons.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than one-third of UK health experts are not aware of Charles Bonnet syndrome \u2014 CBS \u2014 a condition which can cause vivid, and sometimes frightening, hallucinations.<\/p>\n<p>A poll of 1,100 health experts \u2014 including GPs, doctors and optometrists \u2014 found 37 per cent were not aware of CBS.<\/p>\n<p>The condition is not caused by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/mental-health\" rel=\"nofollow\"> mental health<\/a> problems or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/dementia\" rel=\"nofollow\"> dementia<\/a>. It is purely due to a loss of sight \u2014 60 per cent or more \u2014 which reduces or stops the regular messages from the eye to the brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than one-third of UK health experts are not aware of Charles Bonnet syndrome \u2014 CBS \u2014 a condition which can cause vivid, and sometimes frightening, hallucinations. A poll of 1,100 health experts \u2014 including GPs, doctors and optometrists \u2014 found 37 per cent were not aware of CBS. The condition is not caused by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}