The hallucination of spoken voice is a complex phenomenon. But we mention more about what is spoken in what person than about who speaks. The speaker cannot be neglected just because he has not been 'ranked' for the purpose of diagnosis. Each schizophrenic has his own style of hallucinating. There is a method-reasonable or otherwise-of the choice of speaker. The speaker may be the persecutor, G...

Cognitive models have suggested that auditory hallucinations occur when internal mental events, such as inner speech or auditory verbal imagery (AVI), are misattributed to an external source. This has been supported by numerous studies indicating that individuals who experience hallucinations tend to perform in a biased manner on tasks that require them to distinguish self-generated from non-se...

BACKGROUND Hearing voices occurs in middle childhood, but little is known about prevalence, aetiology and immediate consequences. AIMS To investigate prevalence, developmental risk factors and behavioural correlates of auditory vocal hallucinations in 7- and 8-year-olds. METHOD Auditory vocal hallucinations were assessed with the Auditory Vocal Hallucination Rating Scale in 3870 children. P...

Auditory hallucinations are a frequent symptom in schizophrenia. While functional imaging studies have suggested the association of certain patterns of brain activity with sub-syndromes or single symptoms (e.g. positive symptoms such as hallucinations), there has been only limited evidence from structural imaging or post-mortem studies. In this study, we investigated the relation of local brain...

The hallucination of spoken voice is a complex phenomenon. But we mention more about what is spoken in what person than about who speaks. The speaker cannot be neglected just because he has not been 'ranked' for the purpose of diagnosis. Each schizophrenic has his own style of hallucinating. There is a method-reasonable or otherwise-of the choice of speaker. The speaker may be the persecutor, G...