Abstract
Objectives:The nosological status of isolated non-clinical auditory hallucinations and their link to schizophrenia is unclear. We aimed to investigate the functional neural basis of these hallucinatory experiences.Methods:After selection from 1206 people, 68 participants of high, medium and low hallucinations proneness completed a task designed to elicit verbal hallucinatory phenomena under conditions of stimulus degradation. Eight subjects who reported hearing a voice when none was present repeated the task during functional imaging.Results:During the signal detection task, the high hallucination-prone subgroup reported a voice to be present when it was not (false alarms) significantly more often than the average or low subgroups (p
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | s76-s81 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | British Journal of Psychiatry |
| Volume | 191 |
| Issue number | 51 |
| Publication status | Published - Dec 2007 |