Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Hearing messages : an early warning sign for schizophrenia ?

A new study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine suggests that a tendency to extract messages from meaningless noise could be an early warning sign for schizophrenia. 43 people with 'prodromal' symptoms - meaning they exhibited early warning signs of psychosis such as social withdrawal, mild perceptual alterations, or misinterpretation of social cues were played overlapping recordings of six speakers reading neutral texts which made the words virtually incomprehensible. Only four words : 'increase' 'children' 'A-OK' and 'Republican' were consistently reproduced. 80% of the participants who 'heard' phrases of four or more words in length went on to develop schizophrenia whereas only 6% of people who heard no phrases developed the condition. Ralph Hoffman, the lead author of the study, said 'A tendency to extract message-like meaning from meaningless sensory information can, over time, produce a 'matrix of unreality' that triggers the initial psychotic phase of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders.' You can find out more about this research at

http://psychcentral.com/news/2007/10/25/hearing-messages-in-noise/1450.html

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