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 ...

Hearing imaginary voices is a common but mysterious feature in schizophrenia. Up to 80 percent of people with the disease experience auditory hallucinations—hearing voices or other sounds when there ...

“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 ...

Mindfulness therapy added to routine care is linked to a greater reduction in auditory hallucinations in patients with schizophrenia vs routine care alone, a new study shows.

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

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 ...