Visual Perception during Mirror-Gazing at One’s Own Face in Patients with Depression

In normal observers, gazing at one’s own face in the mirror for a few minutes, at a low illumination level, produces the apparition of strange faces. Observers see distortions of their own faces, but they often see hallucinations like monsters, archetypical faces, faces of relatives and deceased, an...

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Published in:	The Scientific World Journal
Main Authors:	Giovanni B. Caputo, Marco Bortolomasi, Roberta Ferrucci, Mario Giacopuzzi, Alberto Priori, Stefano Zago
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Wiley 2014-01-01
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/946851

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