Poor supplementary motor area activation differentiates auditory verbal hallucination from imagining the hallucination

Poor supplementary motor area activation differentiates auditory verbal hallucination from imagining the hallucination☆

Neuronal underpinnings of auditory verbal hallucination remain poorly understood. One suggested mechanism is brain activation that is similar to verbal imagery but occurs without the proper activation of the neuronal systems that are required to tag the origins of verbal imagery in one's mind. Such neuronal systems involve the supplementary motor area. The supplementary motor area has been asso...

Mechanisms of Auditory Verbal Hallucination in Schizophrenia

Recent work on the mechanisms underlying auditory verbal hallucination (AVH) has been heavily informed by self-monitoring accounts that postulate defects in an internal monitoring mechanism as the basis of AVH. A more neglected alternative is an account focusing on defects in auditory processing, namely a spontaneous activation account of auditory activity underlying AVH. Science is often aided...

Explaining Schizophrenia: Auditory Verbal Hallucination and Self- Monitoring

Do self-monitoring accounts, a dominant account of the positive symptoms of schizophrenia, explain auditory verbal hallucination? In this essay, I argue that the account fails to answer crucial questions any explanation of auditory verbal hallucination must address. Where the account provides a plausible answer, I make the case for an alternative explanation: auditory verbal hallucination is no...

Topiramate-induced reversible auditory hallucination.

Topiramate (TPM) is an antiepileptic drug also used in migraine prophylaxis (Silberstein et al. 2007). Neuropsychiatric symptoms may emerge during the use of TPM (Fröscher et al. 2005). There are few reports showing a link between psychotic adverse events and use of TPM (Khan et al. 1999). Only one patient with schizoaffective disorder has been reported in the litera ture, who complained of dos...

[A case of verbal hallucination in codeinism].