What causes olfactory hallucinations (phantosmia)? Answer From Jerry W. Swanson, M.D. An olfactory hallucination (phantosmia) makes you detect smells that aren't really present in your environment.

Smelling disorders, including phantom smells and a lack of smell, can be a sign of serious health problems. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive ...

Can you imagine smelling something rotten, like weeks-old meat or cigarette smoke, but there is nothing around you? This may be a phantom smell, or phantosmia — one way that your brain can play tricks ...

Hey guys...<br><br>I am smelling an unpleasant odor that is not there. This happens to me occasionally (once every 3 or so months), but it is usually gone when I wake ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Hallucinated scents can, rarely, be a part of the "aura" that some people perceive before a migraine attack, a new study finds. About 30 percent of people with recurrent ...

This interview was originally broadcast on Nov. 6, 2012. In Oliver Sacks' book The Mind's Eye, the neurologist included an interesting footnote in a chapter about losing vision in one eye because of ...

Psychosis is popularly portrayed as visual hallucinations and paranoid delusions (e.g., "A Beautiful Mind," "Shutter Island"). Psychotic conditions, like schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, actually ...

Inverted hallucinations reflect a new category of hallucination referred to as part of a psychological theory called inverted hallucination theory, which I introduced in a paper published a few years ...