ReviewNeuropsychiatric disease and treatment2019
Auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia: current perspectives in brain stimulation treatments.
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- Double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled pilot clinical trial with gamma-band transcranial alternating current stimulation for the treatment of schizophrenia refractory auditory hallucinations.Translational psychiatry · 2025Trial
- Targeting auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia: effective connectivity changes induced by low-frequency rTMS.Translational psychiatry · 2024Trial
- Impaired Speaking-Induced Suppression Predicts Degraded Agency and Hallucination Severity in Schizophrenia.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2026Article
- Audio Visual Assisted Therapy Aid for Refractory Auditory Hallucinations (AVATAR) therapy for voice hearers: systematic review and meta-analysis.BJPsych open · 2026Review
- Common and unique white matter fractional anisotropy patterns in patients with schizophrenia with medication-resistant auditory verbal hallucinations: a retrospective tract-based spatial statistics study.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Recognition and management of auditory verbal hallucinations in borderline personality disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Alterations in sulcal depth and associated functional connectivity in schizophrenia with auditory verbal hallucinations.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Cerebral blood flow changes in schizophrenia patients with auditory verbal hallucinations during low-frequency rTMS treatment.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2023Article
- Changes in Quality of Life in Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia Patients Undergoing Avatar Therapy: A Content Analysis.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Article
- Pilot-RCT Finds No Evidence for Modulation of Neuronal Networks of Auditory Hallucinations by Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- The alternations of nucleus accumbent in schizophrenia patients with auditory verbal hallucinations during low-frequency rTMS treatment.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Non-invasive brain stimulation therapy on neurological symptoms in patients with multiple sclerosis: A network meta analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Review
- [Cognitive control in the research domain criteria system: clinical implications for auditory verbal hallucinations].Der Nervenarzt · 2021Review
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Abstract
purposeThis review reports the current perspectives of brain stimulation techniques in the treatment of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) in schizophrenia.
methodsA systematic search of the literature in the PubMed database revealed that the most studied techniques are noninvasive techniques (NIBS), including electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS).
resultsThe results showed that ECT could have great clinical efficacy but is currently underused in practice perhaps due to the costs associated with its limited implementation and potential associated risks. tDCS is still poorly studied and does not demonstrate sufficiently homogeneous or conclusive results yet to prove its efficacy in the treatment of AVH. However, its safe and simple implementation allows us to recommend it to patients who are refractory to other stimulation techniques. Finally, rTMS seems to be the most efficacious NIBS to offer patients with persistent AVH as an add-on therapeutic strategy. Its implementation has a non negligible cost but can be performed by a single practitioner. Great evolution in these techniques with technological progress, robotics and computer science are currently being tested and will undoubtedly improve the clinical efficacy of these procedures, particularly towards more personalized treatments such as individual rTMS targets and intensities. There are also new techniques for deep brain stimulation based on focused ultrasound that could provide much insight into the treatment of AVH in schizophrenia.
conclusionThis review suggests that add-on brain stimulation treatments could play a key role among the therapeutic strategies for auditory hallucinations reduction in schizophrenia.
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