Bonnet, Charles

Bonnet, Charles. 1762. Considerations sur les corps organises ou Ton traite de leur origine, de leur ddveloppement, de leur reproduction, etc. et oil Von a rassemble et abgrege tout ce que Vhistoire naturelle offre de plus certain et de plus interessant sur ce sujet. 2 vols. Amsterdam Marc-Michel Rey. 

Characteristically the visual hallucinations in DLB consist of complete, detailed images, normal in size and tending to move, many containing people or animals. These descriptions are similar to visual hallucinations experienced by patients with other conditions including PD (Cummings Benson, 1992) and the Charles Bonnet Syndrome (Manford Andermann, 1998). Patients with DLB are also more likely to continue to have visual hallucinations during the duration of their illness than patients with AD (Ballard et al., 1998). 

Here I want to focus on people afflicted with certain eye diseases who report encounters with elflike beings from parallel universes. In particular, people with Charles Bonnet syndrome see beings from another world. Many scientists would call these beings hallucinations. Others call this syndrome a portal to a parallel reality. These individuals with Charles Bonnet syndrome (or Bonnet people ) are otherwise mentally sound. The beings appear when Bonnet people s visions deteriorate as a result of eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration—or when patients have had both eyes removed. Charles Bonnet syndrome is more common in older people with a high level of education. 

Bonnet Syndrome is named after the Swiss philosopher Charles Bonnet, who first described this condition in the 1760s. Bonnet s... 

My colleague James Kent would like to see how people with Charles Bonnet syndrome react to Pindolol, which is a blocker for 5HT2A, a molecular brain receptor. Pindolol administration can terminate the DMTverse immediately. What effect would this have on the Bonnetverse ... 

Cotard s first case of this condition involved a 43-year-old woman who believed that she had no brain, nerves, chest or entrails. She also believed, like many Cotard people, that she was eternal and would live forever. Charles Bonnet, the French physician whom we already discussed, described a woman who, in 1788, insisted on being placed in a coffin, in which she stayed for weeks. She believed herself to be already dead. 

Psychologically Normal People Charles Bonnet s Syndrome, Lancet, 347 794-797, March 1996. (Describes the research at the Low Vision Unit of the Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital, Nijmegen, which shows that the Bonnet visions are sometimes comical, like two miniature policemen guiding a midget villain. )... 

Royal National Institute of the Blind, Charles Bonnet Syndrome, ... 

Visual hallucinations have been associated with estrogen in a patient with Charles Bonnet syndrome (40). 

Dose-related visual hallucinations have been reported in a patient with macular degeneration taking phenelzine (the Charles Bonnet syndrome) the authors discussed the possibility that deprivation-induced visual phenomena had been intensified by increased central monoamine concentrations (5). 

Charles M, Veesler S, Bonnete F. MPCD a new interactive on-line crystallization data bank for screening strategies. Acta Cryst. D-Biol. Cryst. 2006 62 1311-1318. 

The formation of bubbles of air on leaves immersed in water and exposed to light was observed by Charles Bonnet (Geneva 13 March 1720-20 June 1793)/ who is often quoted by Senebier. Bonnet thought the bubbles were common air but in some cases they were probably oxygen. Senebier published several works dealing with photosynthesis ... 

Zhang H, Liu ZL, Sun P, Gu F. Incidence of Charles Bonnet syndrome after intravitreal bevacizumab ii ection in neovascular age-related macular degeneration. Acta Ophthalmol December 2012 90(8) e647-8. http //dx.doi.Org/10.llll/j.1755-3768.2012.02421.x. Epub 2012 April 10. PubMed PMID 22490079. 

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