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 ...

For patients with schizophrenia, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) was effective and safe in treating auditory verbal hallucinations, according to a randomized sham-controlled trial.

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 ...

“You cant treat what you dont understand,” asserted University of New South Wales, Australia, psychology professor Tom Whitford in an interview with STAT. It is particularly relevant as researchers ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Adverse events and discontinuation rates were similar between individuals receiving sham stimulation and those receiving cTBS for auditory hallucinations. Adjuvant continuous theta burst stimulation ...

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is both safe and effective for treating nonexistent spoken voices heard by patients with schizophrenia, new research showed. In a randomized, sham ...

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 ...

Voice experiments in people with epilepsy have helped trace the circuit of electrical signals in the brain that allow its hearing center to sort out background sounds from their own voices. Such ...