A functional neuroanatomy of hallucinations in schizophrenia
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Hallucinations, perceptions in the absence of external stimuli, are prominent among the core symptoms of schizophrenia. The neural correlates of these brief, involuntary experiences are not well understood, and have not been imaged selectively. We have used new positron emission tomography (PET) methods to study the brain state associated with the occurrence of hallucinations in six schizophrenic patients. Here we present a group study of five patients with classic auditory verbal hallucinations despite medication, demonstrating activations in subcortical nuclei (thalamic, striatal), limbic structures (especially hippocampus), and paralimbic regions (parahippocampal and cingulate gyri, as well as orbitofrontal cortex). We also present a case study of a unique, drug-naive patient with visual as well as auditory verbal hallucinations, demonstrating activations in visual and auditory/linguistic association cortices as part of a distributed cortical-subcortical network. Activity in deep brain structures, identified with group analysis, may generate or modulate hallucinations, and the particular neocortical regions entrained in individual patients may affect their specific perceptual content. The interaction of these distributed neural systems provides a biological basis for the bizarre reports of schizophrenic patients.
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AVHs are often accompanied by activation of the speech and language perception areas in the left hemisphere.
“AVHs are often accompanied by activation of the speech and language perception areas in the left hemisphere”
From Auditory verbal hallucinations as atypical inner speech monitoring, and the potential of neurostimulation as a treatment option (2013) · cites this paper as Silbersweig et al., 1995
The putamen and thalamus are involved in initiating and organizing language representations and have been shown to be activated coincident with AVH occurrences.
“The first two were in the putamen and thalamus, which are involved in initiating and organizing language representations ordinarily (56–58), and have been shown to be activated coincident with AVH occurrences in two reports (26,59).”
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The Primate Thalamus Is a Key Target for Brain Dopamine
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Diverse Psychotomimetics Act Through a Common Signaling Pathway
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“Each of these regions showed increased BOLD signals after ketamine infusion, and each has been implicated in the pathogenesis of the positive symptoms of schizophrenia, for example, in fMRI studies in hallucinating patients.(57,58) Participants in the present study did not experience frank hallucinations, but the resu…”
ResultAuditory verbal hallucinations predominantly activate the right inferior frontal area
Sommer, I. E. C., Diederen, K. M. J., Blom, J.-D., Willems, A., Kushan, L., Slotema, K., Boks, M. P. M., Daalman, K., Hoek, H. W., Neggers, S. F. W., et al. (2008) · Brain · doi:10.1093/brain/awn251 · Cited by 297 · see citing works
“All patients were right handed and diagnosed with schizophrenia, schizo-affective disorder or psychotic disorder not otherwise specified.”
BackgroundBrainmap taxonomy of experimental design: Description and evaluation
Fox, P., Laird, A., Fox, S. P., Fox, P., Uecker, A. M., Crank, M., Koenig, S., & Lancaster, J. (2005) · Human Brain Mapping · doi:10.1002/hbm.20141 · Cited by 330 · see citing works
“Such widespread use of highly quantitative analysis standards makes the HFBM literature fertile ground for quantitative meta-analysis [Fox et al., 1998; Fox and Lancaster, 2002; Fox et al., 2005].”
BackgroundMethodTreatment resistant schizophrenia: Clinical, biological, and therapeutic perspectives
Nucifora, F. C., Woznica, E., Lee, B. J., Cascella, N. G., & Sawa, A. (2018) · Neurobiology of Disease · doi:10.1016/j.nbd.2018.08.016 · Cited by 313 · see citing works
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The temporal lobe is a target of output from the basal ganglia.
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“Hippocampal malfunction is thought to contribute to the positive symptoms (Silbersweig et al 1995), whereas changes in the DLPFC may be more related to the negative symptoms.”
Diederich, N. J., Goetz, C. G., & Stebbins, G. T. (2004) · Movement Disorders · doi:10.1002/mds.20308 · Cited by 290 · see citing works
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GABAergic mechanisms of hippocampal hyperactivity in schizophrenia
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Reduced number of mediodorsal and anterior thalamic neurons in schizophrenia
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“Finally, the thalamus is metabolically activated during episodic hallucinations (Silbersweig et al 1995), and elevated thalamic, frontal, and cingulate metabolic activity is associated with delusions and thought disorder (Erkwoh et al 1997; Sabri et al 1997).”
BackgroundHallucinations: The science of idiosyncratic perception.
Aleman, A., & Larøi, F. (2008) · American Psychological Association eBooks · doi:10.1037/11751-000 · Cited by 283 · see citing works
Schizophrenia: from phenomenology to neurobiology
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BackgroundThe functional anatomy of auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia
Lennox, B. R., Park, S. B. G., Medley, I., Morris, P. G., & Jones, P. B. (2000) · Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging · doi:10.1016/s0925-4927(00)00068-8 · Cited by 277 · see citing works
Sensory and cognitive functions of the basal ganglia
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Brain correlates of stuttering and syllable production: A PET performance-correlation analysis
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Phenotype of schizophrenia: a review and formulation
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“Cortical activations were present, but their cortical localizations were highly variable between the subjects and not significant in group analysis”
BackgroundThe neural correlates of conscious experience: an experimental framework
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“…2001), which may underlie improvement of negative symptoms (Heimer et al., 1997), whereas positive correlations between increased temporal cortical activity and the hallucinating state in schizophrenics have been reported (e.g., Silbersweig et al., 1995; Dierks et al., 1999; Shergill et al., 2000).”
BackgroundAleman, A., Sommer, I. E., & Kahn, R. S. (2007) · The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry · doi:10.4088/jcp.v68n0310 · Cited by 246 · see citing works
Christian Gaser, B. (2003) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhg107 · Cited by 245 · see citing works
“…primarily included language-related areas such as superior temporal cortical regions (Lennox et al., 2000), including the primary auditory cortex in one study (Dierks et al., 1999), Broca’s area (McGuire et al., 1993), as well as the basal ganglia and anterior cingulate (Silbersweig et al., 1995).”
BackgroundInfluentialCheyne, J. A., Rueffer, S. D., & Newby-Clark, I. R. (1999) · Consciousness and Cognition · doi:10.1006/ccog.1999.0404 · Cited by 244 · see citing works
“…on REM dream imagery (Calvo & Fernández-Guardiola, 1984; Hobson, Stickgold, & Pace-Schott, 1998; Marquette et al., 1996), schizophrenia-related hallucinations (Cleghorn et al., 1992; Silbersweig et al., 1995), and hypnotically induced hallucinations (Szechtman, Woody, Bowers, & Nahmias, 1998).”
Depressive symptoms and presynaptic dopamine function in neuroleptic-naive schizophrenia
Hietala, J. A., Syvälahti, E. K. G., Vilkman, H., Vuorio, K. A., Räkköläinen, V., Bergman, J. R., Haaparanta‐Solin, M., Solin, O. H., Kuoppamäki, M., Eronen, E., et al. (1999) · Schizophrenia Research · doi:10.1016/s0920-9964(98)00113-3 · Cited by 243 · see citing works
Transcranial magnetic brain stimulation: Therapeutic promises and scientific gaps
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The Neurology of Consciousness
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A functional study of auditory verbal imagery
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“The areas engaged during inner speech and auditory verbal imagery in this study, particularly the inferior frontal}insular, lateral temporal and inferior parietal cortex, are similar to those identified in functional imaging studies of auditory verbal hallucinations (McGuire et al. 1993, 1996; Silbersweig et al. 1995;…”
BackgroundResultInfluentialMusical hallucinosis in acquired deafness: Phenomenology and brain substrate
Griffiths, T. D. (2000) · Brain · doi:10.1093/brain/123.10.2065 · Cited by 239 · see citing works
Reopening the Mental Imagery Debate: Lessons from Functional Anatomy
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“However, the hallucinatory activity did not induce an increased activity in the primary visual area while visual associative regions were activated (Silbersweig et al., 1995).”
BackgroundAuditory hallucinations in schizophrenia: intrusive thoughts and forgotten memories
Waters, F., Badcock, J., Michie, P., & Maybery, M. (2006) · Cognitive Neuropsychiatry · doi:10.1080/13546800444000191 · Cited by 233 · see citing works
“, 1995) and hippocampus (e.g. Copolov et al., 2003; Silbersweig et al., 1995; Woodruff & Murray, 1994) during auditory hallucinations is consistent with the notion that selection/retrieval from memory, and context memory deficits, are important in the hallucinatory process.”
BackgroundResultInfluentialWhere the imaginal appears real: a positron emission tomography study of auditory hallucinations
Szechtman, H., Woody, E., Bowers, K. S., & Nahmias, C. (1998) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.95.4.1956 · Cited by 234 · see citing works
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The neural mechanisms of hallucinations: A quantitative meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies
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“Thus, imaging studies show hippocampal hyperactivity in schizophrenia patients (Heckers, 2001; Kegeles et al., 2000; Malaspina et al., 1999; Medoff et al., 2001), and moreover this hyperactivity correlates with psychosis (Silbersweig et al., 1995).”
The Role of the Thalamus in Schizophrenia
Andreasen, N. C. (1997) · The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry · doi:10.1177/070674379704200104 · Cited by 217 · see citing works
Positron emission tomography of cortical centers of tinnitus
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Positron Emission Tomography Studies of Abnormal Glucose Metabolism in Schizophrenia
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- Authors
- Silbersweig, D. A., Stern, E., Frith, C., Cahill, C., Holmes, A., Grootoonk, S., Seaward, J., McKenna, P., Chua, S. E., Schnorr, L., Jones, T., & Frackowiak, R. S. J.
- Affiliations
- Hammersmith Hospital (GB)
- Fulbourn Hospital (GB)
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 1995-11
- Volume
- 378
- Issue
- 6553
- Pages
- 176-179
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W1969273085
- Cited by
- 906
- References
- 30
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- FWCI
- 19.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- The HKU Scholars Hub (University of Hong Kong) (submittedVersion)
- 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
- hallucinations, schizophrenia, auditory verbal hallucinations, visual hallucinations, neural correlates, thalamus, striatum, hippocampus, parahippocampal gyrus, cingulate gyrus, orbitofrontal cortex, cortical-subcortical networks
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Brain, Cerebrovascular Circulation, Hallucinations, Humans, Male, Schizophrenia, Tomography, Emission-Computed
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