Clinical trials: Hallucinations, Verbal Auditory
Auditory Hallucination, Verbal, Treatment-resistant Schizophrenia
Comparaison of Avatar Therapy to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Schizophrenia With Treatment Refractory Hallucinations
Schizophrenia is associated with long-lasting health, social and financial burden for patients, families, caregivers and society.
- Trial name
- Phase3 (NCT04054778)
- Testing
- Avatar Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 136 people
- Sponsor
- Ciusss de L'Est de l'Île de Montréal
Schizophrenia; Psychosis
Efficacy of Maintenance Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) in Auditory Verbal Hallucinations
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) can alleviate persistent auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) in schizophrenic patients, but the classical procedure with low-frequency stimulation for several weeks upon the…
- Trial name
- MAINSTIM (NCT05550155)
- Testing
- Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) Treatment
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 120 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Caen
Schizophrenia and Related Disorders
An Extension Protocol for Patients Who Previously Completed the TMS Pilot Study
This is an open-label extension study to continue to evaluate the safety, tolerability and efficacy of the Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) in subjects with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder who…
- Trial name
- NCT05526833
- Testing
- Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 3 people
- Sponsor
- Columbia University
Auditory Hallucination
SMA Targeted Magnetic Stimulation Against Auditory Verbal Hallucinations
Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) are prevalent among patients with psychiatric disorders. Not only being highly stressful and functionally impairing, AVH often persist despite treatment.
- Trial name
- SMA-AVH (NCT04651621)
- Testing
- continuous theta burst stimulation over the SMA
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 46 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Uppsala University
Psychotic Disorders, Veterans
Impact of VVV Group for Veterans With SMI
Veterans with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) struggle with social integration - participation in work, housing, and citizenship - due to symptoms, stigma, and psychosocial challenges.
- Trial name
- VVV (NCT05562674)
- Testing
- Veteran Voices and Visions
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 28 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Verbal Auditory Hallucination, Psychotic Disorders
RELATE - Efficacy and Feasibility of a Cognitive Behavioural Module for Distressing Auditory Verbal Hallucinations
Auditory hallucinations (AH) are associated with distress and reduced functioning. Psychological interventions show some promising effects on psychopathology but have been less successful in reducing AH related distress, which…
- Conditions
- Verbal Auditory Hallucination, Psychotic Disorders, Psychosis, Schizophrenia
- Trial name
- RELATE (NCT04578314)
- Testing
- Relating Therapy, Treatment as usual
- Where
- 5 sites in Germany
- Volunteers
- 85 people
- Sponsor
- University of Hamburg-Eppendorf
Auditory Verbal Hallucinations, Schizophrenia
Theta-Burst Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Auditory Hallucinations
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn whether theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation (TBS), a non-invasive brain stimulation technique, can help reduce persistent auditory verbal hallucinations (hearing voices) in…
- Conditions
- Auditory Verbal Hallucinations, Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, Psychotic Disorders
- Trial name
- NCT07902518
- Testing
- Theta-Burst Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TBS)
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 12 people
- Sponsor
- Ciusss de L'Est de l'Île de Montréal
Mental Disorder, Schizophrenia Diagnosis
Validation of a VOICE MAnagement Program in Schizophrenia VVoice MAPS
Approximately 25-50% of patients with schizophrenia experience treatment-resistant Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (AVHs), which contribute to the development of associated psychopathological disorders (e.g., anxiety, depression…
- Trial name
- PROGEVs (NCT07266376)
- Testing
- Integrative group therapy
- Where
- Guadeloupe
- Volunteers
- 116 people
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Guadeloupe
Auditory Hallucination, Hearing Voices When No One is Talking
Imagery Interventions for Auditory Vocal Hallucinations
This study explores the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of four imagery intervention techniques (metacognitive imagery intervention, imagery rescripting, promoting positive imagery and competing imagery task) for…
- Conditions
- Auditory Hallucination, Hearing Voices When No One is Talking, Psychosis
- Trial name
- NCT05603260
- Testing
- Imagery intervention for voice hearing (meta-cognitive imagery rescripting), Imagery intervention for voice hearing (Imagery rescripting), Imagery intervention for voice hearing (promoting positive imagery de novo)
- Where
- Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 32 people
- Sponsor
- Hella Janssen
Schizophrenia
EEG-based Neurofeedback for Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (HALFEED)
This study's primary objective is to perform a randomized controlled pilot study to assess the feasibility of using EEG-based neurofeedback to reduce the severity of treatment-resistant auditory verbal hallucinations ('hearing…
- Trial name
- HALFEED (NCT03852706)
- Testing
- LORETA, Treatment as usual
- Where
- Ireland
- Volunteers
- 4 people
- Sponsor
- University of Dublin, Trinity College
Auditory Hallucination, Verbal
Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on Persistent Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Schizophrenia
Many individuals with schizophrenia struggle with auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs). In some cases, these AVHs can be resistant to medication treatment.
- Trial name
- NCT04222582
- Testing
- Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 84 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Ottawa
Auditory Hallucination, Verbal, Treatment-resistant Schizophrenia
Virtual Reality Therapy for Treatment-resistant Auditory Hallucinations in Schizophrenia
Treatment of verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia is clinically challenging for both the patient and the therapist. For the therapist, one of the main difficulties arises from the impossibility of directly communicating with…
- Trial name
- NCT03148639
- Testing
- Avatar therapy, Treatment-as-usual
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 19 people
- Sponsor
- Ciusss de L'Est de l'Île de Montréal
Auditory Verbal Hallucinations, Schizophrenia
Non-invasive Brain Stimulation for Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Schizophrenia
The current study investigates the basic principles that underlie the efficacy of transcranial direct current stimulation for chronic auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia in a multimodal design.
- Trial name
- NCT01801787
- Testing
- tDCS
- Where
- 2 sites in Germany
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- Charite University, Berlin, Germany
Schizophrenia, Psychotic Disorders
Theta Burst Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation as Treatment for Auditory Verbal Hallucinations
Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) are a characterising symptom of schizophrenia. In the majority of patients, these AVH respond well to antipsychotic medication.
- Trial name
- NCT01512290
- Testing
- Theta Burst Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
- Where
- Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 71 people
- Sponsor
- UMC Utrecht
Schizophrenia and Related Disorders
Individualized Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Auditory Verbal Hallucinations
The Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) is a type of brain stimulation that uses a magnet to change activity in the brain.
- Trial name
- NCT05319080
- Testing
- Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 11 people
- Sponsor
- Columbia University
Hallucinations, Auditory, Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
VR-based Avatar Therapy for Treatment of Auditory Hallucinations
The primary aim of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of AVATAR therapy, developed to address residual auditory hallucinations persisting despite medication in schizophrenia spectrum disorder.
- Trial name
- NCT06505564
- Testing
- AVATAR therapy
- Where
- 4 sites in Hungary, Poland and 1 more
- Volunteers
- 90 people
- Sponsor
- Semmelweis University
Schizophrenia
Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Schizophrenia
Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) are speech perceptions in the absence of a relevant external stimulation. Some accounts of AVHs claim that a deficit in inner speech monitoring would cause the verbal thoughts of the patient…
- Trial name
- HAV (NCT01886417)
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Grenoble
Schizophrenia
Cognitive Factors Mediating the Relationship Between Childhood Trauma and Auditory Hallucinations in Schizophrenia
BACKGROUND It is demonstrated that strong associations between trauma suffered in childhood and having schizophrenia, and more specifically to experience acoustic-verbal hallucinations (AVH).
- Trial name
- HADITRYOS (NCT04481217)
- Testing
- Self-questionnaires battery, Socio-demographic screening
- Where
- 2 sites in France
- Volunteers
- 350 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Grenoble
Schizophrenia
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for "Voices"
OBJECTIVES: I. Determine the effect of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on treatment refractory auditory hallucinations of patients with schizophrenia.
- Trial name
- NCT00004980
- Testing
- repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- Yale University
Hallucinations, Verbal Auditory
Symptom Based Treatment Affects Brain Plasticity - the Role of Verbal Auditory Hallucinations
The aim of the study is the examination of brain plasticity on verbal auditory hallucinations (AVH) after neuromodulation with fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) neurofeedback.
- Trial name
- APIC-II (NCT02722915)
- Testing
- fMRI, Neurofeedback, PANAS
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 81 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- RWTH Aachen University