This article is part of the supplement: International Society on Brain and Behaviour: 3rd International Congress on Brain and Behaviour .

Oral presentation

Auditory processing in schizophrenia

Stergios Kaprinis

3rd Department of Psychiatry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

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from International Society on Brain and Behaviour: 3rd International Congress on Brain and Behaviour
Thessaloniki, Greece. 28 November – 2 December 2007

Annals of General Psychiatry 2008, 7(Suppl 1):S11doi:10.1186/1744-859X-7-S1-S11

Published:	17 April 2008

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Auditory hallucinations are a frequent, principal and disabling symptom of schizophrenia, however, little is known about their pathophysiology. The “voices inside the head” are very disturbing and the fact that the source of the “voices” is often described as being “on the outside” of the patient greatly contributes to the feeling of diffusion of the patient's personality, as well as on their weak control of what is real and what is imaginary.