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Why do some people with schizophrenia hear voices? HEARING IMAGINARY VOICES is a common but mysterious feature of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Up to 80 per cent of people with these conditions experience auditory hallucinations, hearing speech or other sounds when there are none. Now research has gotten us closer to unraveling the brain mechanisms behind this phenomenon. Experts have long thought auditory hallucinations arise from a person’s perception of their inner thoughts as real voices coming from the outside world. When people without schizophrenia speak or prepare to speak, the brain region that plans movements suppresses signals in the auditory cor tex, the part of the brain that processes sound. …
摘自《科学美国人》(Scientific American)第334卷 第2期 · 2026年2月刊。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。