What causes hallucinations? - Elizabeth Cox

What causes hallucinations? - Elizabeth Cox with tags ted, ted-ed, ted ed, ted education, teded, elizabeth cox, nerdo, hallucinations, science, charles bonnet syndrome, brain, blind, oliver sacks, hallucinogens

Download a free audiobook version of "Hallucinations" and support TED-Ed's nonprofit mission: https://adbl.co/2Kpt43kCheck out our full book recommendation: https://shop.ed.ted.com/products/hallucinationsView full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-causes-hallucinations-elizabeth-coxA condition called Charles Bonnet Syndrome can cause blind patients to hallucinate scenes in vivid color. fMRI studies show that these hallucinations activate the same brain area as sight which is a completely different region from imagination. Other hallucinations also involve the same brain areas as real sensory experiences. What's going on? Elizabeth Cox details the science of hallucinations.Lesson by Elizabeth Cox, directed by Nerdo.Thank you so much to our patrons for supporting us on Patreon! Without you this video would not be possible! Mayra Urbano, Kostadin Mandulov, Alex Schenkman, Sdiep Sriram, Ivan Todorovi, Antero Semi, Yanuar Ashari, Mrinalini, Anthony Kudolo, Querida Owens, Hazel Lam, Manav parmar, Dwight Tevuk, Stephen A. Wilson, Siamak H, Dominik Kugelmann, Katie Winchester, David Rosario, Samuel Doerle, Be Owusu, Susan Herder, Savannah Scheelings, Prasanth Mathialagan, Yanira Santamaria, Chad Harper, Dawn Jordan, Chris Mathew, Constantin Salagor, Activated Classroom Teaching, Kevin Wong, Umar Farooq, Goh Xiang Ting Diana, Dmitry Neverov, Tushar Sharma, Cristbal Medina Moenne, Silas Schwarz, MJ Tan Mingjie, Yansong Li, Henry Li, Kyle Nguyen, Taylor Hunter, Noa Shore, Lex Azevedo, Merit Gamertsfelder, Bev Millar, Jhuval , SookKwan Loong, Daniel Day, Rodrigo Carballo, Marc Veale, Boytsov Ilya, Bozhidar Karaargirov, and ilya bondarik.