Auditory hallucinations: Expectation-perception model

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 802-810

  Nazimek, J M ^a   Hunter, M D ^a   Woodruff, P W R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PERCEPTION; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROGNOSIS; SELF MONITORING; THALAMUS; WHITE NOISE;

AUDITORY DISEASES, CENTRAL; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; THALAMUS;

EID: 84860385718     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2012.03.014     Document Type: Article

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