Marion Plaze

TL;DR: This report provides an update of neuroimaging studies of AH with a particular emphasis on more recent anatomical, physiological, and neurochemical imaging studies, and practical recommendations for future studies.

TL;DR: Sulcal abnormalities in language-related cortex might underlie these patients' particular vulnerability to hallucinations and suggest abnormalities in cortical gyrification in these patients.

TL;DR: The current results indicate that spatial location of auditory hallucinations is associated with the rTPJ anatomy, a key region of the "where" auditory pathway.

TL;DR: Low-frequency rTMS over Wernicke's area can speed-up the response to a task tapping on native language perception in healthy volunteers, and this individually-guided stimulation study confirms that facilitatory effects are not confined to high-frequency RTMS.

TL;DR: Severity of hallucinations, assessed using the auditory hallucination subscales of the Psychotic Symptom Rating Scales (PSYRATS) and of the Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms (SAPS-AH), negatively correlated with activation in the left temporal superior region in the French minus silence condition, which supports the hypothesis that auditory hallucinations compete with normal external speech for processing sites within the temporal cortex in schizophrenia.