FLORENCE, Italy — Schizophrenia patients with auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) that have not responded to treatment may experience improvement with two cutting-edge techniques, new research shows.

For patients with schizophrenia, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) was effective and safe in treating auditory verbal hallucinations, according to a randomized sham-controlled trial.

An immersive virtual reality (VR)-assisted therapy known as Challenge-VRT was associated with a greater reduction in severity and frequency of auditory verbal hallucinations in patients with ...

Adverse events and discontinuation rates were similar between individuals receiving sham stimulation and those receiving cTBS for auditory hallucinations. Adjuvant continuous theta burst stimulation ...

New research reveals that the brain's failure to self-monitor motor signals plays a key role in schizophrenia-related hallucinations, offering fresh insights into the mechanisms behind these ...

Individuals with schizophrenia show deficits in auditory sensory processing that represent a core feature of the disorder. At the behavioural level, patients are impaired in the ability to match tones ...

Hearing voices that others do not hear is often considered a symptom of mental illness. The American Psychological Association defines an auditory hallucination as “the perception of sound in the ...

Auditory hallucinations involve hearing sounds that have no source or observable cause. It is common in several conditions. Treatment entails addressing the underlying cause. For instance, if the ...

Jonathan Brilling has a high school memory that still makes him smile more than a decade later. At Riverside Military Academy in Gainesville, he was part of a competitive drill team that moved to ...