A new study from researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney has provided some of the strongest evidence so far about why some people with schizophrenia hear voices. The findings ...

Hearing imaginary voices is a common but mysterious feature of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Up to 80 percent of people with these conditions experience auditory hallucinations, hearing speech or ...

Auditory hallucinations are likely the result of abnormalities in two brain processes: a 'broken' corollary discharge that fails to suppress self-generated sounds, and a 'noisy' efference copy that ...

A new study led by psychologists from UNSW Sydney has provided the strongest evidence yet that auditory verbal hallucinations—or hearing voices—in schizophrenia may stem from a disruption in the brain ...

New evidence confirms a long-held theory that people with schizophrenia hear 'voices' in their heads by misattributing inner speech as external. "This idea's been around for 50 years, but it's been ...

We were going to our favorite Mexican restaurant in town. Even though I take my medication and have a healthy lifestyle, I know in a public place I am going to hear voices and have delusions. That is ...

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