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Abnormal monitoring of inner speech: a physiological basis for auditory hallucinations

Abstract

Auditory verbal hallucinations ("voices") are thought to arise from a disorder of inner speech (thinking in words). We examined the neural correlates of tasks which involve inner speech in subjects with schizophrenia who hear voices (hallucinators), subjects with schizophrenia who do not (nonhallucinators), and normal controls. There were no differences between hallucinators and controls in regional cerebral blood flow during thinking in sentences. However, when imagining sentences being spoken in another person's voice--which entails both the generation and monitoring of inner speech--hallucinators had a normal left frontal response, but reduced activation in the left middle temporal gyrus and the rostral supplementary motor area, regions which were activated by both normal subjects and nonhallucinators (p < 0.001). These findings suggest that a predisposition to verbal hallucinations is associated with a failure to activate areas concerned with the monitoring of inner speech.

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Authors
McGuire, P. K., David, A. S., Murray, R. M., Frackowiak, R. S. J., Frith, C. D., Wright, I., & Silbersweig, D. A.
Affiliations
  • Hammersmith Hospital (GB)
  • Weill Cornell Medical Center (US)
Venue
The Lancet
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
1995-09
Volume
346
Issue
8975
Pages
596-600
ISSN
  • 0099-5355 (ISSN-L)
  • 0140-6736
OpenAlex
W1994899805
Cited by
349
References
32
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 12 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 19
FWCI
7.47
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • The Lancet (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
  • Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Wellcome Trust
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Hallucinations in medical conditions
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Mental Health and Psychiatry
Keywords
auditory verbal hallucinations, inner speech, schizophrenia, neural correlates, regional cerebral blood flow, left middle temporal gyrus, supplementary motor area, sentence generation, frontal lobe activation
MeSH terms
Adult, Auditory Perceptual Disorders, Cerebrovascular Circulation, Hallucinations, Humans, Male, Schizophrenia, Speech Perception, Tomography, Emission-Computed

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