What happens in the brain when someone hears voices?

A blog post by neuropsychologist & Mindhacks blogger Vaughan Bell on PLOS Neuroscience Community begins…
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I’ve met a lot of people who hear hallucinated voices and I have always been struck by the number of people who feel accompanied by them, as if they were distinct and distinguishable personalities. Some experience their hallucinated entourage as hecklers or domineering bullies, some as curious and opaque narrators, others as helpful guardians, but most of the time, the voice hearer feels they share a relationship with a series of internal vocal individuals. Not everyone who hears voices experiences them as social entities but this type of social hallucinated voice is not rare or exotic.

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I don’t really know I just hope mine go away. They’ve stopped harassing me at this point, but they still maintain a presence.

Thanks for that. Part of Vaughan Bell’s essay deals with the fact that not all voices are harassing and in fact the experience of hearing voices is an extension of normal human social cognitive functioning, e.g. internalizing others, a social function that actually helps people understand what others might be thinking. Check it out.

I would but you didn’t post a direct link and I’m not much of a reader. It does make sense though. I became super obsessed with a certain topic and was wandering heavily what other people were thinking about and that is when I started to get into trouble. Suddenly I was hearing the voices of my aunts and uncles and other family members. They were discussing the topic and things went south. Suddenly they were demanding my suicide. What a mess that was I am glad the worst is over. Now all I have to worry about is if my meds are going to make me grow tits and tumors like i’ve heard they will.

You ask the important question in the world of schizophrenia
BUT the question
Who is the qualified person to answer about the question?
the psychiatrist or the schizophrenic ?

IF you think the psychiatrists is the qualified person
-All attempts made by psychiatrists during a hundred years or more
were failed
-All answers were fantasies and speculations that do not reflect
the actual picture of the mental processes,and contributed to
mislead the minds of public inmost of cases !

so that,the hope in the schizophrenic person who can give us
a real description to the mental processes which occur in his mind
during the hearing of the voices

but,should you know it is a mission impossible to any schizophrenic ,
because he is a part from the phenomenon "many changes has
occurs in his mind during the noticing process to the mental processes "

Anyways,should know very well that the correct answer is the only
available means for human to achieve real understanding,explanation
and treatment per most of problems “chemical,psychological,behavioral”
that arise from the effectiveness of voices

should know that,there are a new mental processes that occur in the brain
in the present of consciousness state after the hearing of voices,that are
coincide with/precedes,tracked / linked 1- the chemical processes 2-sentimental
feeling 3-production of behaviors

if there were not a knowledge with the new mental processes,speed and
subject mater content,it is impossible to know the changes that occur in
brain chemistry and behavior

#the hearing of voices has make up a new changes in the main nature of the mental
processes, that different about the mental processes which occur
in the brain of any human

What happens in the brain? Serotonin and dopamine in the wrong places, too much reception and production of both neurotransmitters. Also structural abnormalities. Swollen ventricles compress the rest of the brain.

I am a psychology student.

The important point,you said { but most of them,the voice hearer feels they share a
relationship with a series of internal VOCAL INDIVIDUALS }
=in fact,they are psychological entities not from our human world
-they are conscious entities like the human,they have the ability to the perception of things
like the human mind
-the impact of their speech is similar to the internal thoughts in our human world
( them speech is similar to the thoughts regard of us }
(them speech is vocal thoughts }
{them bodies is like the imaginary pictures regard of brain explanation }
-they are a whole entities like human but without biological structure…etc

the doctors called them hallucinations !!
they considered them as a mental characteristics of the schizophrenic mind !!
the doctors have unreal views about the realistic facts of these entities,
in most of cases,what they say is arise the lough

FOR example
they build their knowledge about the mental case and personality of the
schizophrenic individual through wrong beliefs
=they think { imagine } that,the schizophrenic individual has feign
fictional personalities in his imagination,then he moderated a placebo
discussion among them, and takes them as enemies

=they think that,the schizophrenic has going to inventing a story,personalities,and authored
scenarios inspired from his memories and psychological experiences,and
unexpectedly he coexists with his illusions as actual facts,and when he claiming
hearing a voices,he listens to the voices of his mind

in fact,all these theoretical views is merely an idle talk,although these views has appears to
the mind of public as objective,logical and reasonable talk !

mainly,the doctor have not realistic information to make him able to talks about facts made by mother nature,and what he says is just a fictional throries