{"id":197017,"date":"2024-10-04T03:41:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T08:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/brain-scan-study-shows-what-happens-in-the-brain-when-a-person-with-schizophrenia-hears-voices"},"modified":"2024-10-04T03:41:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T08:41:54","slug":"brain-scan-study-shows-what-happens-in-the-brain-when-a-person-with-schizophrenia-hears-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/brain-scan-study-shows-what-happens-in-the-brain-when-a-person-with-schizophrenia-hears-voices","title":{"rendered":"Brain scan study shows what happens in the brain when a person with schizophrenia hears voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-scan-study-shows-what-happens-in-the-brain-when-a-person-with-schizophrenia-hears-voices3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Patients with certain mental disorders, including schizophrenia, often hear voices in the absence of sound.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>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 makes the brain hear these sounds more intensely than it should. That is the conclusion of a study published October 3 in the open-access journal <i>PLOS Biology<\/i> by Xing Tian, of New York University Shanghai, China, and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>In the new study, researchers carried out electroencephalogram (EEG) experiments measuring the brain waves of 20 patients diagnosed with schizophrenia with <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/auditory+hallucinations\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">auditory hallucinations<\/a> and 20 patients diagnosed with <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/schizophrenia\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">schizophrenia<\/a> who had never experienced such hallucinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patients with certain mental disorders, including schizophrenia, often hear voices in the absence of sound. 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 makes the brain hear these sounds more intensely than it should. That [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}