The origin of auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia elucidated

This article is taken from the monthly magazine Sciences et Avenir n°948, dated February 2026.

A major psychotic symptom of schizophrenia, verbal auditory hallucinations would indeed be the result of a mistaken perception by patients of their own inner speech.

A hypothesis formulated 50 years ago

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This hypothesis, formulated 50 years ago, has been confirmed by a study using brain imaging to observe the neural activity of patients while they heard these voices. The results, obtained by the University of New South Wales in Australia, were published in the journal Psychological Medicine.

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