ReviewProgress in neurobiology2017
Interaction of language, auditory and memory brain networks in auditory verbal hallucinations.
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110 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Frontal neural metabolite changes in schizophrenia and their association with cognitive control: A systematic review.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2022Pooled it
- A review of functional and structural neuroimaging studies to investigate the inner speech model of auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia.Translational psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Dysconnectivity of Multiple Brain Networks in Schizophrenia: A Meta-Analysis of Resting-State Functional Connectivity.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Pooled it
- Schizotypal Traits are Linked to Dopamine-Induced Striato-Cortical Decoupling: A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Study.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2019Trial
- 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
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- Decreased Broca-left supplementary motor area connectivity underlying auditory verbal hallucination: A resting-state NIRS study.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Neural encoding of auditory processing in schizophrenia.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Abnormal cortical topographic patterns associated with auditory verbal hallucination in first-episode schizophrenia.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- Towards an Integrative Account of Potential Mechanisms Mediating the Path From Sleep Dysfunction to Hallucinations.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Review
- Cognitive-Developmental Mechanisms in Hallucinations.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Review
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- The Involvement of Thalamic Nuclei in Schizophrenia Patients with and Without Auditory Verbal Hallucinations: A Brain Morphometry Study.Brain sciences · 2025Article
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- GABA, glutamate dynamics and BOLD observed during cognitive processing in psychosis patients with hallucinatory traits.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) occur in psychotic disorders, but also as a symptom of other conditions and even in healthy people. Several current theories on the origin of AVH converge, with neuroimaging studies suggesting that the language, auditory and memory/limbic networks are of particular relevance. However, reconciliation of these theories with experimental evidence is missing. We review 50 studies investigating functional (EEG and fMRI) and anatomic (diffusion tensor imaging) connectivity in these networks, and explore the evidence supporting abnormal connectivity in these networks associated with AVH. We distinguish between functional connectivity during an actual hallucination experience (symptom capture) and functional connectivity during either the resting state or a task comparing individuals who hallucinate with those who do not (symptom association studies). Symptom capture studies clearly reveal a pattern of increased coupling among the auditory, language and striatal regions. Anatomical and symptom association functional studies suggest that the interhemispheric connectivity between posterior auditory regions may depend on the phase of illness, with increases in non-psychotic individuals and first episode patients and decreases in chronic patients. Leading hypotheses involving concepts as unstable memories, source monitoring, top-down attention, and hybrid models of hallucinations are supported in part by the published connectivity data, although several caveats and inconsistencies remain. Specifically, possible changes in fronto-temporal connectivity are still under debate. Precise hypotheses concerning the directionality of connections deduced from current theoretical approaches should be tested using experimental approaches that allow for discrimination of competing hypotheses.
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