Competition for neuronal resources: how hallucinations make themselves heard
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Competition for neuronal resources: how hallucinations make themselves heard.
BACKGROUND Hallucinations are perceptions in the absence of a corresponding external sensory stimulus. However, during auditory verbal hallucinations, activation of the primary auditory cortex has been described. AIMS The objective of this study was to investigate whether this activation of the auditory cortex contributes essentially to the character of hallucinations and attributes them to a...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.106.022954