Plaut's hallucinosis

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• Plaut's hallucinosis —    The eponym Plaut s hallucinosis refers to the German psychiatrist Felix Plaut (1877 1940). It was conceptualized by Plaut in or shortly before 1913 as a form of *syphilitic hallucinosis occurring in the absence of any neurological signs. Prior …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

• hallucinosis —    A term coined in or shortly before 1900, possibly by the German neurologist Carl Wernicke (1848 1904), to denote a mental state or disorder in which hallucinations feature prominently. The term hallucinosis has been variously defined as    1)… …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

• syphilitic hallucinosis —    The term syphilitic hallucinosis is used to denote a hallucinatory state attributable to syphilis. The medical Latin name syphilis comes from the Latin sus (swine), and the Greek philos (friend of). It was introduced in a medical didactic poem …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

• acute hallucinosis —    The term acute hallucinosis refers to a subtype of * hallucinosis characterized by a delusional and hallucinatory state of a limited duration not necessarily with an acute onset. The term was employed from about 1900 onwards in opposition to… …   Dictionary of Hallucinations