Auditory hallucinations are difficult to treat. People show a wide range of response to antipsychotics. And, the medications are associated with negative side effects. Psychological treatments like ...

Auditory hallucinations, including hearing voices, are one of the hallmarks of schizophrenia, as up to 80 percent of people diagnosed with schizophrenia report hearing voices. Auditory hallucinations ...

People who hear voices that other people can’t hear may use unusual skills when their brains process new sounds, according to research led by Durham University and University College London (UCL). The ...

One night, during her first year at the University of Sheffield, Rachel Waddingham struggled to fall asleep at a friend's house. She could hear three middle-aged men whose voices she didn't know ...

Hallucinations tend to be associated with psychosis, but the reality is more complicated than that. Some people who hear voices don’t suffer from other mental health problems, and the voices they hear ...

Voices in people's heads are far more varied and complex than previously thought. One of the largest and most detailed studies to date on the experience of auditory hallucinations, commonly referred ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. Yale psychiatrist Albert Powers didn’t know what to expect as he strolled among the tarot card readers, astrologers, and crystal vendors at the psychic fair ...

Ron Coleman: "It’s never that the drugs don’t work. It’s somehow that we don’t work. And we find that quite offensive." Ron Coleman and his wife, Karen Taylor, were joyfully anticipating the birth of ...

Caroline White started hearing voices when she was 8. Sometimes they would say she was bad or in danger. Others might say her family was going to get hurt. “Other times I would hear voices that would ...

People who hear voices — both with and without a diagnosed psychotic illness — are more sensitive than other subjects to a 125-year-old experiment designed to induce hallucinations. And the subjects’ ...

Simon McCarthy-Jones receives funding from an Irish Research Council New Foundations scheme grant. He has previously undertaken volunteer work for the English Hearing Voices Network. Once the province ...