Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN

Differential brain glucose metabolic patterns in antipsychotic-naïve first-episode schizophrenia with and without auditory verbal hallucinations.

Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN September 1, 2011 Guillermo Horga, Eduard Parellada, Francisco Lomeña et al.

Background: Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) are a core symptom of schizophrenia. Previous reports on neural activity patterns associated with AVHs are inconsistent, arguably owing to the lack of an adequate control group (i.e., patients with similar characteristics but without AVHs) and neglect of the potential confounding effects of medication. Methods: The current study was conducted in...