• Auditory verbal hallucinations in persons with and without a need for care 

      Johns, Louise C.; Kompus, Kristiina; Connell, Melissa; Humpston, Clara; Lincoln, Tania M.; Longden, Eleanor; Preti, Antonio; Alderson-Day, Ben; Badcock, Johanna C.; Cella, Matteo; Fernyhough, Charles; McCarthy-Jones, Simon; Peters, Emmanuelle; Raballo, Andrea; Scott, James; Siddi, Sara; Sommer, Iris E.; Larøi, Frank (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)
      Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) are complex experiences that occur in the context of various clinical disorders. AVH also occur in individuals from the general population who have no identifiable psychiatric or ...
    • Beyond trauma: A multiple pathways approach to auditory hallucinations in clinical and nonclinical populations 

      Luhrmann, Tanya Marie; Alderson-Day, Ben; Bell, Vaughan; Bless, Josef J; Corlett, Philip; Hugdahl, Kenneth; Jones, Nev; Larøi, Frank; Mosley, Peter; Padmavati, Ramachandran; Peters, Emmanuelle; Powers, Albert R.; Waters, Flavie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-02-01)
      That trauma can play a significant role in the onset and maintenance of voice-hearing is one of the most striking and important developments in the recent study of psychosis. Yet the finding that trauma increases the risk ...
    • Correlates of Hallucinatory Experiences in the General Population: An International Multisite Replication Study 

      Moseley, Peter; Aleman, André; Allen, Paul; Bell, Vaughan; Bless, Josef Johann; Bortolon, Catherine; Cello, Matteo; Garrison, Jane; Hugdahl, Kenneth Jan; Kozáková, Eva; Larøi, Frank; Moffatt, Jamie; Say, Nicolas; Smailes, David; Suzuki, Mimi; Toh, Wei Lin; Woodward, Todd; Zaytseva, Yuliya; Rossell, Susan; Fernyhough, Charles (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Hallucinatory experiences can occur in both clinical and nonclinical groups. However, in previous studies of the general population, investigations of the cognitive mechanisms underlying hallucinatory experiences have ...
    • A cross-national investigation of hallucination-like experiences in 10 countries: The E-CLECTIC Study 

      Siddi, Sara; Ochoa, Susana; Larøi, Frank; Cella, Matteo; Raballo, Andrea; Saldivia, Sandra; Quijada, Yanet; Laloyaux, Julien Freddy; Rocha, Nuno Barbosa; Lincoln, Tania M.; Schlier, Björn; Ntouros, Evangelos; Bozikas, Vasileios P.; Gawęda, Łukasz; Machado, Sergio; Nardi, Antonio E.; Rodante, Demián; Deshpande, Smita N.; Haro, Josep Maria; Preti, Antonio (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-02-01)
      Hallucination-like experiences (HLEs) are typically defined as sensory perceptions in the absence of external stimuli. Multidimensional tools, able to assess different facets of HLEs, are helpful for a better characterization ...
    • Eliciting false auditory perceptions using speech frequencies and semantic priming: a signal detection approach 

      Laloyaux, Julien; Hirnstein, Marco; Specht, Karsten; Giersch, Anne; Larøi, Frank (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Introduction Individuals experiencing auditory hallucinations (AH) tend to perceive voices when exposed to random noise. However, the factors driving this tendency remain unclear. The present study examined the interaction ...
    • From core schemas about the self and others to voice phenomenology: Anxiety and depression affect voice hearers differently 

      Kusztrits, Isabella; Toh, Wei Lin; Thomas, Neil; Larøi, Frank; Meyers, Denny; Hirnstein, Marco; Rossell, Susan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Objectives Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) occur as a symptom in various mental disorders, and show different phenomenological aspects, depending on their underlying psychopathology. Anxiety and depression, which ...
    • Hallucinations in healthy older adults: An overview of the literature and perspectives for future research 

      Badcock, Johanna C.; Dehon, Hedwige; Larøi, Frank (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-07-07)
      Studies suggest a substantial minority of healthy older adults have hallucinatory experiences, in line with existing evidence on hallucinations in other age groups, though it is still unclear if hallucination prevalence ...
    • Hallucinations in older adults: A practical review 

      Badcock, Johanna C.; Larøi, Frank; Kamp, Karina; Kelsall-Foreman, India; Bucks, Romola S.; Weinborn, Michael; Begemann, Marieke; Taylor, John-Paul; Collerton, Daniel; O'Brien, John T.; El Haj, Mohamad; Ffytche, Dominic; Sommer, Iris Else Clara (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      By 2050, it is estimated that 16% of people will be aged above 65 years, compared with 9% in 2019.1 Population aging is driving increased attention to the physical and mental health needs of older adults. Here, our focus ...
    • Hallucinations under psychedelics and in the schizophrenia spectrum: An interdisciplinary and multiscale comparison 

      Leptourgos, Pantelis; Fortier-Davy, Martin; Carhart-Harris, Robin; Corlett, Philip; Dupuis, David; Halberstadt, Adam L.; Kometer, Michael; Kozakova, Eva; Larøi, Frank; Noorani, Tehseen N.; Preller, Katrin H.; Waters, Flavie; Zaytseva, Yuliya; Jardri, Renaud (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      The recent renaissance of psychedelic science has reignited interest in the similarity of drug-induced experiences to those more commonly observed in psychiatric contexts such as the schizophrenia-spectrum. This report ...
    • The ice in voices: Understanding negative content in auditory-verbal hallucinations 

      Larøi, Frank; Thomas, Neil; Aleman, André; Fernyhough, Charles; Wilkinson, Sam; Deamer, Felicity; McCarthy-Jones, Simon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-02)
      Negative voice-content is the best sole predictor of whether the hearer of an auditory-verbal hallucination will experience distress/impairment necessitating contact with mental health services. Yet, what causes negative ...
    • Idiographic analyses of motivation and related processes in participants with schizophrenia following a therapeutic intervention for negative symptoms 

      Thonon, Bénédicte; Van Aubel, Evelyne; Lafit, Ginette; Della Libera, Clara; Larøi, Frank (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-09)
      Background Motivational negative symptoms hinder quality of life and daily functioning of individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. A recently developed intervention, Switch, has shown promising effects on negative ...
    • The Impact of Sexualized Video Game Content and Cognitive Load on State Rape Myth Acceptance 

      Noël, Tania; Larøi, Frank; Burnay, Jonathan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The potential negative impact of sexualized video games on attitudes toward women is an important issue. Studies that have examined this issue are rare and contain a number of limitations. Therefore, it largely remains ...
    • In the twilight zone: An epidemiological study of sleep-related hallucinations 

      Bless, Josef Johann; Hugdahl, Kenneth Jan; Kråkvik, Bodil; Vedul-Kjelsås, Einar; Kalhovde, Anne Martha; Grønli, Janne; Larøi, Frank (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background Few studies have investigated hallucinations that occur at the onset/offset of sleep (called hypnagogic/hypnopompic hallucinations; HHHs), despite the fact that their prevalence in the general population is ...
    • Item-specific overlap between hallucinatory experiences and cognition in the general population: A three-step multivariate analysis of international multi-site data 

      Chinchani, Abhijit M.; Menon, Mahesh; Roes, Meighen; Hwang, Heungsun; Allen, Paul; Bell, Vaughan; Bless, Josef J; Bortolon, Catherine; Cella, Matteo; Fernyhough, Charles; Garrison, Jane; Kozáková, Eva; Larøi, Frank; Moffatt, Jamie; Say, Nicolas; Suzuki, Mimi; Toh, Wei Lin; Zaytseva, Yuliya; Rossell, Susan L.; Moseley, Peter; Woodward, Todd (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Hallucinatory experiences (HEs) can be pronounced in psychosis, but similar experiences also occur in nonclinical populations. Cognitive mechanisms hypothesized to underpin HEs include dysfunctional source monitoring, ...
    • Mapping psychotic-like experiences: Results from an online survey 

      Kusztrits, Isabella; Larøi, Frank; Laloyaux, Julien Freddy; Marquardt, Lynn Anne; Sinkeviciute, Igne; Kjelby, Eirik; Johnsen, Erik; Sommer, Iris Else Clara; Hugdahl, Kenneth; Hirnstein, Marco (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Suggestions have been made that psychotic‐like experiences (PLEs), such as hallucinatory and delusional experiences, exist on a continuum from healthy individuals to patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. We used the ...
    • No sex difference in an everyday multitasking paradigm 

      Hirnstein, Marco; Larøi, Frank; Laloyaux, Julien Freddy (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-03)
      According to popular beliefs and anecdotes, females best males when handling multiple tasks at the same time. However, there is relatively little empirical evidence as to whether there truly is a sex difference in multitasking ...
    • Olfactory hallucinations in a population-based sample 

      Wehling, Eike Ines; Bless, Josef J; Hirnstein, Marco; Kråkvik, Bodil; Vedul-Kjelsås, Einar; Hugdahl, Kenneth; Kalhovde, Anne Martha; Larøi, Frank (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Olfactory hallucinations referring to olfactory perceptions in the absence of chemical stimuli, occur in non-clinical and clinical populations. Few studies have investigated their prevalence in the general population and ...
    • Potential applications of digital technology in assessment, treatment, and self-help for hallucinations 

      Thomas, Neil; Bless, Josef J; Alderson-Day, Ben; Bell, Imogen H.; Cella, Matteo; Craig, Tom; Delespaul, Philippe; Hugdahl, Kenneth; Laloyaux, Julien Freddy; Larøi, Frank; Lincoln, Tania M.; Schlier, Björn; Urwyler, Prabitha; van den Berg, David; Jardri, Renaud (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      The field of digital mental health is rapidly expanding with digital tools being used in assessment, intervention, and supporting self-help. The application of digital mental health to hallucinations is, however, at a very ...
    • Prevalence of auditory verbal hallucinations in a general population: A group comparison study 

      Kråkvik, Bodil; Larøi, Frank; Kalhovde, Anne Martha; Hugdahl, Kenneth; Kompus, Kristiina; Salvesen, Øyvind; Stiles, Tore C; Vedul-Kjelsås, Einar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-10)
      The present study was specifically designed to investigate the prevalence of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) in the general population, and sought to compare similarities and differences regarding socio-demographics, ...
    • Psychometric investigation of the French version of the Aberrant Salience Inventory (ASI): Differentiating patients with psychosis, patients with other psychiatric diagnoses and non-clinical participants 

      Golay, Philippe; Laloyaux, Julien; Moga, Mihaela; Della Libera, Clara; Larøi, Frank; Bonsack, Charles (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-10)
      During the prodromal phase of psychosis, individuals may experience an aberrant attribution of salience to irrelevant stimuli. The concept of aberrant salience has been hypothesized to be a central mechanism in the emergence ...