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Paracingulate sulcus morphology is associated with hallucinations in the human brain

Garrison, J.; Fernyhough, C.; McCarthy-Jones, S.; Haggard, M.; Bank, The Australian Schizophrenia Research; Simons, J.S.

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J. Garrison

S. McCarthy-Jones

M. Haggard

The Australian Schizophrenia Research Bank

J.S. Simons



Abstract

Hallucinations are common in psychiatric disorders, and are also experienced by many individuals who are not mentally ill. Here, in 153 participants, we investigate brain structural markers that predict the occurrence of hallucinations by comparing patients with schizophrenia who have experienced hallucinations against patients who have not, matched on a number of demographic and clinical variables. Using both newly validated visual classification techniques and automated, data-driven methods, hallucinations were associated with specific brain morphology differences in the paracingulate sulcus, a fold in the medial prefrontal cortex, with a 1 cm reduction in sulcal length increasing the likelihood of hallucinations by 19.9%, regardless of the sensory modality in which they were experienced. The findings suggest a specific morphological basis for a pervasive feature of typical and atypical human experience.

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Garrison, J., Fernyhough, C., McCarthy-Jones, S., Haggard, M., Bank, T. A. S. R., & Simons, J. (2015). Paracingulate sulcus morphology is associated with hallucinations in the human brain. Nature Communications, 6, Article 8956. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9956

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Oct 19, 2015
Online Publication Date Nov 17, 2015
Publication Date Nov 17, 2015
Deposit Date Oct 22, 2015
Publicly Available Date Apr 7, 2016
Journal Nature Communications
Publisher Nature Research
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 6
Article Number 8956
DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9956

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