Neuroimaging auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia patient and healthy populations

• Published in: Psychological medicine Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 403 - 412
• Main Authors: Di Biase, Maria Angelique, Zhang, Fan, Lyall, Amanda, Kubicki, Marek, Mandl, René C W, Sommer, Iris E, Pasternak, Ofer
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Cambridge University Press 01.02.2020
• Subjects: Adult; Age; Age differences; Anisotropy; Ascription; Case-Control Studies; Contaminated water; Corpus callosum; Corpus Callosum - diagnostic imaging; Corpus Callosum - pathology; Diffusion Tensor Imaging; Female; Hallucinations; Hallucinations - diagnostic imaging; Hallucinations - pathology; Hallucinations - psychology; Humans; Hypotheses; Internal Capsule - diagnostic imaging; Internal Capsule - pathology; Limbs; Magnetic resonance imaging; Male; Mental disorders; Middle Aged; Neuroimaging; Pathology; Patients; Psychopathology; Schizophrenia; Schizophrenia - complications; Schizophrenia - diagnostic imaging; Schizophrenia - pathology; Substantia alba; Substantia grisea; Verbal hallucinations; White Matter - diagnostic imaging; White Matter - pathology; chronicity; symptom dimensions; cortical thickness; gray matter thickness; tissue-specific fractional anisotropy; diffusion MRI; free-water; Age; psychosis

Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) are a cardinal feature of schizophrenia, but they can also appear in otherwise healthy individuals. Imaging studies implicate language networks in the generation of AVH; however, it remains unclear if alterations reflect biologic substrates of AVH, irrespective o...