Digital 'avatars' emerging as effective treatment for psychosis

Promising results from a new digital therapy could help tackle one of psychiatry’s most intractable problems — hearing voices.

Auditory verbal hallucinations are one of the hallmarks of psychosis, particularly in people with schizophrenia, which affects 24 million people globally. These voices often bully or abuse the voice hearer, commenting incessantly on the person’s thoughts and behavior or even urging them to harm themself. 

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