User:Cat.R.Leo/Auditory hallucination

Research
A good amount of the research done has focused primarily on patients with schizophrenia, and beyond that drug resistant auditory hallucinations.

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Pathophysiology
The following areas of the brain have been found to be active during auditory hallucinations through the use of fMRI s.


 * Transverse temporal gyri (Heschl's gyri): found within the primary auditory cortex

General Information
While there are horror stories about auditory hallucinations not all who experience them find them to be distressing. The relationship between an individual and their hallucinations are personal, and everyone interacts with their troubles in different ways. There are those who hear solely malevolent voices, solely benevolent voices, and those that hear a mix of the two.

Many if not all patients feel that the voices they hear are omnipotent, and have either visual hallucinations or misattributions of scenarios to back this claim up.

Therapy
Another use of therapy for individuals suffering auditory hallucinations is that they can learn to control what they are hearing. This would help those that hear malevolent voices learn to not comply with what they are being told to do, which would in turn help to keep those individuals safe.