Alberto Barbieri, Federica Visco-Comandini, Danilo Alunni Fegatelli, Anna Dessi, Giuseppe Cannella, Antonella Stellacci, Giulia de Lucia, Lucia Maulucci
The term voice hearing (VH) refers to the experience of hearing voices in the absence of corresponding external stimuli and is considered a hallucinatory experience. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2013), hallucinations are perception-like experiences that occur without an external stimulus. They are vivid and clear, with the full force and impact of normal perceptions, and not under voluntary control. Specifically, auditory hallucinations involve the perception of sound, most frequently of voices (i...
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