Insights into hallucinations in schizophrenia: Novel treatment approaches

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1007-1015

  Aleman, André ^a   Larøi, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

acceptance and commitment therapy; cognitivebehavioral therapy; hallucinations; schizophrenia; transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; PLACEBO;

ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY; ATTENTION TRAINING TECHNIQUE; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPETITIVE MEMORY TRAINING; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOEDUCATION; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

COGNITIVE THERAPY; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 79959955514     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ern.11.90     Document Type: Review

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