ReviewWorld journal of psychiatry2015
Auditory hallucinations: A review of the ERC "VOICE" project.
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- Efficacy of neurostimulation across mental disorders: systematic review and meta-analysis of 208 randomized controlled trials.Molecular psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Abnormalities of intrinsic regional brain activity in first-episode and chronic schizophrenia: a meta-analysis of resting-state functional MRIJournal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN · 2020Pooled it
- Real-time fMRI neurofeedback modulates auditory cortex activity and connectivity in schizophrenia patients with auditory hallucinations: A controlled study.Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging · 2025Trial
- Targeting the superior temporal gyrus with real-time fMRI neurofeedback: A pilot study of the indirect effects on self-referential processes in schizophrenia.Schizophrenia research · 2024Trial
- Innovative strategies for managing hallucinations by exploring effects of tDCS on source monitoring abilities.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
- Alterations in interhemispheric gamma-band connectivity are related to the emergence of auditory verbal hallucinations in healthy subjects during NMDA-receptor blockade.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2018Trial
- Differential Effectiveness of Atypical Antipsychotics on Hallucinations: A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of clinical psychopharmacologyTrial
- Structural alterations in early auditory cortex in borderline personality disorder with auditory verbal hallucinations.Brain structure & function · 2026Article
- The associations of stress, pleasure and emotion to voice-hearing: An ecological momentary assessment study.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2025Article
- GABA, glutamate dynamics and BOLD observed during cognitive processing in psychosis patients with hallucinatory traits.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Lateralized brain connectivity in auditory verbal hallucinations: fMRI insights into the superior and middle temporal gyri.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Correlation Analysis of Acute Psychotic Symptom Domain Severity and Fractional Anisotropy of Brain White Matter Tracts in Schizophrenia.Sovremennye tekhnologii v meditsine · 2025Article
- Network Localization of State and Trait of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Schizophrenia.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2024Article
- Altered intrinsic neural activity and its molecular analyses in first-episode schizophrenia with auditory verbal hallucinations.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Cerebral blood flow changes in schizophrenia patients with auditory verbal hallucinations during low-frequency rTMS treatment.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2023Article
- Auditory Cortex Thickness Is Associated With N100 Amplitude in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders.Schizophrenia bulletin open · 2023Article
- Pilot-RCT Finds No Evidence for Modulation of Neuronal Networks of Auditory Hallucinations by Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Microstructural changes along the cingulum in young adolescents with psychotic experiences: An along-tract analysis.The European journal of neuroscience · 2022Article
- Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Based on the Data of Various Modalities: Biomarkers and Machine Learning Techniques (Review).Sovremennye tekhnologii v meditsine · 2022Review
- Brain correlates of speech perception in schizophrenia patients with and without auditory hallucinations.PloS one · 2022Article
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Abstract
In this invited review I provide a selective overview of recent research on brain mechanisms and cognitive processes involved in auditory hallucinations. The review is focused on research carried out in the "VOICE" ERC Advanced Grant Project, funded by the European Research Council, but I also review and discuss the literature in general. Auditory hallucinations are suggested to be perceptual phenomena, with a neuronal origin in the speech perception areas in the temporal lobe. The phenomenology of auditory hallucinations is conceptualized along three domains, or dimensions; a perceptual dimension, experienced as someone speaking to the patient; a cognitive dimension, experienced as an inability to inhibit, or ignore the voices, and an emotional dimension, experienced as the "voices" having primarily a negative, or sinister, emotional tone. I will review cognitive, imaging, and neurochemistry data related to these dimensions, primarily the first two. The reviewed data are summarized in a model that sees auditory hallucinations as initiated from temporal lobe neuronal hyper-activation that draws attentional focus inward, and which is not inhibited due to frontal lobe hypo-activation. It is further suggested that this is maintained through abnormal glutamate and possibly gamma-amino-butyric-acid transmitter mediation, which could point towards new pathways for pharmacological treatment. A final section discusses new methods of acquiring quantitative data on the phenomenology and subjective experience of auditory hallucination that goes beyond standard interview questionnaires, by suggesting an iPhone/iPod app.
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