BACKGROUND Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the left temporo-parietal junction area has been studied as a treatment option for auditory verbal hallucinations. Although the right temporo-parietal junction area has also shown involvement in the genesis of auditory verbal hallucinations, no studies have used bilateral stimulation. Moreover, little is known about durability effects. ...

Previous studies have suggested that a tendency to externalize internal thought is related to auditory hallucinations or even proneness to auditory hallucinations (AHp) in the general population. However, although auditory hallucinations are related to emotional phenomena, few studies have investigated the effect of emotional valence on the aforementioned relationship. In addition, we do not kn...

Fig. 1. Group-mean percent-correct recognition of the target keywords for the health-control participants (top panel) and patient participants (middle panel) as a function of signal-to-masker ratio (SMR) along with the group-mean best-fitting psychometric functions under the no-priming condition (open triangles and dash curve), false-priming condition (open squares and dash curve), and true-pri...

Introduction: Hallucinations are symptoms of mental disorders in which the patient experiences sensory changes perception, feels false sensations form sound, sight, taste, touching or shaming, client a stimulus that does not exist. Objective: Knowing application individual therapy to auditory hallucination patients. Method: Quality research using descriptive method case study research. Results:...

The "psychic tonus" model or PTM [1] of hemispheric specialization states that the left hemisphere is a psychic and behavioral activator and that the right hemisphere is an inhibitor. The PTM predicts that the tonus of visual representation ought to manifest hemispheric specialization in the occipital lobes. Specifically PTM predicts that pathological positive visual tonus (visual hallucination...