Many people live with a secret that feels almost impossible to describe. They hear speech or whispers that nobody else ...

New research reveals that people with schizophrenia hear voices because their brains fail to recognise their own inner speech ...

New research aims to tease out what exactly is happening in the brains of people with schizophrenia who have auditory ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Auditory verbal hallucinations – hearing voices that aren’t there – are one of the most common and distressing symptoms of schizophrenia. Around 60–80% of people with the condition experience them at ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Psychiatrists are developing a system that can help people with schizophrenia control and sometimes silence the tormenting voices in their heads by confronting a computer avatar of ...

As such, while it may be a bizarre concept to the uninitiated, it's not an uncommon presentation in psychiatric and medical settings. Though most regularly associated with schizophrenia, hearing ...

About 1% of Americans, or nearly 3.5 million people, are affected by schizophrenia — yet the mental disorder remains highly stigmatized and misunderstood, experts say. The reason, according to Brooke ...

Jessie (name disguised) lost eye contact with me and, cracking a smile, spoke to the invisible third party in the room. "I heard you," he replied to thin air, giving a dismissive wave of his hand.