Lorna Collins reflects on a systematic review exploring the benefits of Hearing Voices and other self-help groups for people with auditory hallucinations.
[read the full story...]How do prelingually deaf people with schizophrenia experience hallucinations?
Charlotte Huggett and Sophie Paul explore an important review looking at the content and modality of hallucinations in prelingually deaf people with schizophrenia.
[read the full story...]Living well with dementia: what’s the impact of auditory hallucinations?
Clarissa Giebel reviews a recent study exploring the impact of auditory hallucinations on ‘living well’ with dementia using findings from the IDEAL programme.
[read the full story...]Is virtual reality the future of schizophrenia spectrum therapy?
Stefanie Sturm blogs a systematic review which finds sparse, but promising support for the use of virtual reality to treat schizophrenia spectrum disorder.
[read the full story...]Meditation and mindfulness can help us and harm us, but how common are adverse events?
Edel McGlanaghy critiques a systematic review which finds that meditation may lead to adverse events, particularly psychiatric adverse events.
[read the full story...]First-hand experiences of taking antipsychotics: findings from a large online survey
Georgie Buswell summarises a cross-sectional study, which used open questions to try and understand people’s lived experiences of taking antipsychotic drugs.
[read the full story...]Hearing voices: experiences of children and young people #CAMHScampfire
Hearing voices is common in young people. In this #CAMHScampfire blog, Douglas Badenoch looks at a new qualitative study of the experiences of people aged 13-18 who hear voices but who do not have any clinical diagnosis.
[read the full story...]Can we predict how people will adjust after victimisation? Progress towards an individualised risk calculator for psychopathology
In her debut blog, Jessica Armitage reviews a recent cohort study, which suggests that it may be possible to predict risk of psychopathology in victimised children.
[read the full story...]Loneliness and the psychosis continuum: can loneliness be a target for mental health services?
Laurie Hare-Duke writes his debut elf blog on a recent meta-analysis on loneliness and the psychosis continuum, which finds that loneliness is associated with both positive and negative psychotic symptoms, and is more strongly associated with paranoia than with hallucinations.
[read the full story...]Facing our inner voices: AVATAR therapy for auditory hallucinations in people with psychosis
Joe Barnby summarises a recent RCT in The Lancet Psychiatry of AVATAR therapy for auditory verbal hallucinations in people with psychosis.
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