1. Schizophrenia
... " (McGuire, Shah, and Murray, pg 703). The results of their study were very interesting and made great leaps in the study of schizophrenia. They discovered that an area of the brain known as Broca's area, which is the part of the brain known to be involved in speech production, expe! rienced an increase of blood flow during auditory hallucinations. This is interesting ... because "since hallucinations usually involve understanding the "speech" of others, you might expect more activity in Wernicke's area, which involves language comprehension" (Barlow, David and Mark Durand; Abnormal Psyc...
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