Hallucinatory ‘voices’ shaped by local culture
Monday, July 25, 2016 - 08:31
in Mathematics & Economics
People suffering from schizophrenia may hear “voices” – auditory hallucinations – differently depending on their cultural context, according to new Stanford research. In the United States, the voices are harsher, and in Africa and India, more benign, said Tanya Luhrmann, a Stanford professor of anthropology and first author of the article in the British Journal […]