Paracingulate Sulcus Length and Cortical Thickness in Schizophrenia Patients With and Without a Lifetime History of Auditory Hallucinations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It has been theorized that hallucinations, a common symptom of schizophrenia, are caused by failures in reality monitoring. The paracingulate sulcus (PCS) has been implicated as a brain structure supporting reality monitoring with the absence or shorter length of PCS associated with an occurrence of hallucinations in schizophrenia. The absence or shorter length of PCS has been associated with an occurrence of hallucinations. There are inconsistent findings in the literature regarding the role of the asymmetry of this structure for hallucinations. Here, we investigated the length of the PCS and cortical thickness of surrounding structures in patients with a lifetime history of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH).

Design

Seventy-seven patients and twenty-eight heal

SUBMITTER: Curcic-Blake B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9960009 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature