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Giulio Perrotta proposes a seven-level evaluation scale for patients reporting alien abductions based on symptoms described in the patient's anamnesis: Level 1 (voluntary mystification), Level 2 (delusions or hallucinations from substances or neurological conditions like epilepsy or tumors), Level 3 (false memories connected to post-traumatic events), Level 4 (altered state from obsessive ideas of abduction with sleep disturbances), Level 5 (altered state from dissociative disorder), Level 6 (altered state from eccentric personality profiles, Cluster B, DSM-V), and Level 7 (altered state from psychotic personality profiles, Cluster A, DSM-V).

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