In something CNN is calling an “exercise in empathy,” Anderson Cooper recently underwent a simulation for schizophrenia. Here’s how it worked. Cooper wore headphones for an afternoon which played ...

Hearing imaginary voices is a common but mysterious feature in schizophrenia. Up to 80 percent of people with the disease experience auditory hallucinations—hearing voices or other sounds when there ...

LONGVIEW, Texas -- Social worker Roy Brady said investing about 10 minutes to sit through a simulated schizophrenia experience gave him a new appreciation of what people with the mental illness go ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

New evidence confirms a long-held theory that people with schizophrenia hear 'voices' in their heads by misattributing inner speech as external. "This idea's been around for 50 years, but it's been ...

Hearing imaginary voices is a common but mysterious feature of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Up to 80 percent of people with these conditions experience auditory hallucinations, hearing speech or ...

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Many people live with a secret that feels almost impossible to describe. They hear speech or whispers that nobody else detects. These are not vague impressions. They can feel as solid as a friend ...

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For a recent segment on his CNN show 360, Anderson Cooper spends a day wearing a “schizophrenia simulator”—basically headphones that mimic what it’s like to hear voices constantly in your head. The ...