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Klaus Conrad

German neurologist and psychiatrist
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  • apophenia

    …by German neurologist and psychiatrist Klaus Conrad in 1958 to describe the process of repetitively perceiving abnormal meaning between objects or events in one’s experiential field. Conrad observed such imagined connections in extreme degrees in psychiatric patients, to the extent that individuals who exhibited apophenic symptoms appeared delusional. Subsequent research…

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    …by German neurologist and psychiatrist Klaus Conrad in 1958 to describe the process of repetitively perceiving abnormal meaning between objects or events in one’s experiential field. Conrad observed such imagined connections in extreme degrees in psychiatric patients, to the extent that individuals who exhibited apophenic symptoms appeared delusional. Subsequent research…

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