{"id":223725,"date":"2025-10-21T04:25:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/brainwave-study-sheds-light-on-cause-of-hearing-voices"},"modified":"2025-10-21T04:25:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:25:27","slug":"brainwave-study-sheds-light-on-cause-of-hearing-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/brainwave-study-sheds-light-on-cause-of-hearing-voices","title":{"rendered":"Brainwave study sheds light on cause of \u2018hearing voices\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brainwave-study-sheds-light-on-cause-of-hearing-voices2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study led by psychologists from UNSW Sydney has provided the strongest evidence yet that auditory verbal hallucinations\u2014or hearing voices\u2014in schizophrenia may stem from a disruption in the brain\u2019s ability to recognize its own inner voice.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/schbul\/sbaf167\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> today in the journal <i>Schizophrenia Bulletin<\/i>, the researchers say the finding could also be an important step toward finding biological indicators that point to the presence of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/schizophrenia\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">schizophrenia<\/a>. This is significant, as there are currently no blood tests, <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+scans\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain scans<\/a>, or lab-based biomarkers\u2014signs in the body that can tell us something about our health\u2014that are uniquely characteristic of schizophrenia.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Thomas Whitford, with the UNSW School of Psychology, has been examining the role of inner speech in the cognition of healthy people and people living with schizophrenia spectrum disorders for some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study led by psychologists from UNSW Sydney has provided the strongest evidence yet that auditory verbal hallucinations\u2014or hearing voices\u2014in schizophrenia may stem from a disruption in the brain\u2019s ability to recognize its own inner voice. In a paper published today in the journal Schizophrenia Bulletin, the researchers say the finding could also be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223725","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}