For decades, scientists have suspected that the voices heard by people with schizophrenia might be their own inner speech gone awry. Now, researchers have found brainwave evidence showing exactly how ...

Auditory hallucinations, defined as the perception of sounds or voices without external stimuli, are a core symptom in many psychiatric disorders, particularly schizophrenia. Recent developments have ...

Interventions for auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia should be coordinated with patients to fit their needs. Auditory hallucinations, or “hearing voices,” is one of the most prevalent symptoms ...

Many people live with a secret that feels almost impossible to describe. They hear speech or whispers that nobody else detects. These are not vague impressions. They can feel as solid as a friend ...

A novel digital treatment designed to reduce the frequency of auditory hallucinations and associated distress in patients with psychosis has been shown to be safe and effective, results from the ...

New research suggests that auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia may come from a brain glitch that confuses inner thoughts ...

To study how auditory and verbal hallucinations work, Swiss scientists developed a robotically-assisted technique to make people who have no history of mental illness hallucinate voices that are not ...

New research reveals that the brain's failure to self-monitor motor signals plays a key role in schizophrenia-related hallucinations, offering fresh insights into the mechanisms behind these ...

Auditory hallucinations are perceived as having the same qualities of sounds generated by external stimuli, and the person is often convinced of the objective reality of the experience. Hearing a ...

Auditory hallucinations are defined as the sensory perceptions of hearing noises without an external stimulus. (Thakur and Gupta, 2022) Psychiatric reasoning, like medical reasoning in general, tends ...