A study shows that seeing a digital avatar embodiment of the auditory hallucination’s voice might help people with schizophrenia.
Inspite of all the medical advances, we still have a lot more to learn about schizophrenia.
A psychiatrist in the United Kingdom did an experiment with virtual therapy tools by taking schizophrenic patients who hear voices in their head, and having them create a digital avatar representation of the voice.
The results of the study show that seeing a digital avatar embodiment of the auditory hallucination’s voice might help people with schizophrenia.
Patients create the avatar of the voice in their head, and the psychiatrist Julian Leff then manipulates the avatar during six therapy sessions to eventually tell the patient that the voice will leave them alone.
The majority of participants who stayed in the study reportedly heard the voices less often,, and three of the people said that they no longer heard the voices in their head at all.
Schizophrenia can be a very serious condition classified by various forms of psychosis along with auditory and visual hallucinations.
There are several antipsychotic medications that are used to treat schizophrenia, including some that have been around since the 1950s and are considered an effective treatment.
