For patients with schizophrenia, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) was effective and safe in treating auditory verbal hallucinations, according to a randomized sham-controlled trial.

You know those scenes in movies where the patient in the psych ward desperately insists that they're not crazy, but everyone just rolls their eyes at them and their seemingly outlandish claims? Well, ...

A total of 226 patients, 152 (67.3%) males, were included and randomized to one of the study drugs (Figure 1). The mean age was 34.1 years, the standard deviation (SD) 13.5. About half the sample was ...

(WNDU) - Visual hallucinations affect up to 75% of Parkinson’s patients. These visual hallucinations cause them to see things that aren’t really there. Now, there is a medication that targets these ...

Can digital therapy help counteract the distressing auditory hallucinations experienced by individuals with psychosis? A phase 2/3 trial, recently published in Nature Medicine, offers promising ...

Hallucinations are unreal sensory experiences, such as hearing or seeing something that is not there. Any of our five senses (vision, hearing, taste, smell, touch) can be involved. Most often, when we ...

Auditory hallucinations, defined as the perception of sounds or voices without external stimuli, are a core symptom in many psychiatric disorders, particularly schizophrenia. Recent developments have ...

OpenAI’s transcription tool Whisper has been used by AI healthcare company Nabla to transcribe seven million medical conversations between patents and doctors, per The Verge. New research shows that ...