WHEN PEOPLE HEAR VOICES, BUT ONLY WHEN THEY WANT TO
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✍️ A Yale psychiatrist, Albert Powers, studies high-functioning voice hearers, including mediums and psychics, to understand the mechanisms of control over auditory hallucinations and its potential to transform the experience of psychosis.
👉 Powers studies high-functioning voice hearers, including mediums and psychics, to understand the mechanisms of control over auditory hallucinations. 👉 The research aims to develop new treatments for psychosis and to understand the complex system of voice hearing and control. 👉 Powers and his team use brain scans and other methods to study the brains of people who hear voices, including those with and without a psychiatric diagnosis. 👉 The research has shown that people who regularly hear voices, both with and without a diagnosis, perceive more nonexistent sounds than do people who do not hear voices. 👉 The study also found that people who score higher on a control scale have greater control over their voices, which correlates with lower measures of hallucination severity and lower perceived malevolence and omnipotence of the voices.
-- #AlbertPowers #PhilipCorlett #JohnNash #HermannvonHelmholtz #KarlFriston #AndyClark #AnilSeth #Connecticut #Yale #health
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