Assessing early-onset hallucinations in the touch-screen
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Demeulemeester, Morgane; Kochman, F.; Fligans, Benjamin; Tabet, Ahmed J.; Thomas, Pierre; Jardri, Renaud

doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.114.154153

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“…This app utilizes common game-based aesthetics and codes to increase engagement and motivation of children and adolescents during the assessment, using a simple, intuitive, and playful interface with developmentally appropriate language. 95 The MHASC app was designed for use in community populations of children and adolescents. Recognizing that potential harm can come from labeling the experienced phenomena as mental illness, the developers emphasize that MHASC is not a diagnostic tool but more a quantitative and phenomenological measure.…”

Section: Assessment Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hallucinations in Children and Adolescents: An Updated Review and Practical Recommendations for Clinicians

Maijer

Hayward

Fernyhough

et al. 2019

Schizophrenia Bulletin

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Hallucinations in children and adolescents are now known to occur on a continuum from healthy to psychopathology-related phenomena. Although hallucinations in young populations are mostly transient, they can cause substantial distress. Despite hallucinations being widely investigated, research so far has had limited implications for clinical practice. The present article has 3 main aims: (1) to review research findings since 2014 (when the last major review of the area was published); (2) to present assessment tools validated to measure hallucinations in children and adolescents; and (3) to discuss therapeutic strategies and clinical issues. We conclude by presenting a tailored care model for clinicians and outline future challenges for research.

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Section: Assessment Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hallucinations in Children and Adolescents: An Updated Review and Practical Recommendations for Clinicians

Maijer

Hayward

Fernyhough

et al. 2019

Schizophrenia Bulletin

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“…11,30,35 ESM offers a number of advantages over retrospective assessments, including allowing assessment of real-world, real-time experiences (ie, in situ and in vivo) with limited need of episodic memory input and minimal impact of cognitive biases. Technological advances over the past decade have made it feasible to employ ESM using electronic mobile devices, 29,30,[35][36][37][38][39] including among hospitalized individuals. 30,40 Such devices provide precise time-stamps of the participants' responses, allowing for ascertainment of temporal links to concurrent autonomic indicators.…”

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Autonomic Regulation and Auditory Hallucinations in Individuals With Schizophrenia: An Experience Sampling Study

Kimhy

Wall

Hansen

et al. 2017

Schizophrenia Bulletin

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Auditory Hallucinations (AH) cause substantial suffering and dysfunction, yet remain poorly understood and modeled. Previous reports have linked AH to increases in negative emotions, suggesting a role for the autonomic nervous system (ANS) in underlying this link. Employing an Experience Sampling Method (ESM) approach, 40 individuals with schizophrenia completed a 36-hour ambulatory assessment of AH and cardiac autonomic regulation. Participants carried mobile electronic devices that prompted them to report 10 times/d the severity of their momentary AH, along with a Holter monitor that continuously recorded their cardiac autonomic regulation. The clocks of the devices and monitors were synchronized, allowing for high time-resolution temporal linking of the AH and concurrent autonomic data. Power spectral analysis was used to determine the relative vagal (parasympathetic) contribution to autonomic regulation during 5 minutes prior to each experience sample. The participants also completed interview-based measures of AH (SAPS; PSYRATS). The ESM-measured severity of AH was significantly correlated with the overall SAPS-indexed AH severity, along with the PSYRATS-indexed AH frequency, duration, loudness, degree of negative content, and associated distress. A mixed-effect regression model indicated that momentary increases in autonomic arousal, characterized by decreases in vagal input, significantly predicted increases in ESM-measured AH severity. Vagal input averaged over the 36-hour assessment displayed a small but significant inverse correlation with the SAPS-indexed AH. The results provide preliminary support for a link between ANS regulation and AH. The findings also underscore the highly dynamic nature of AH and the need to utilize high time-resolution methodologies to investigate AH.

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“…Although preliminary, our results support initiatives in which a routine exploration of traumatic events in childhood is performed when multimodal hallucinations are present, in complement to other pertinent features such as help-seeking. 10 Because young people rarely volunteer information about these intimate experiences, dedicated tools able to non-intrusively explore the phenomenology of early-onset hallucinations could be particularly helpful 8 and allow clinicians to better define adjusted and personalised healthcare.…”

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Association between childhood trauma and multimodal early-onset hallucinations

Medjkane¹,

Notredame²,

Sharkey

et al. 2020

Br J Psychiatry

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SummaryPrevious reports suggest that adverse events during childhood could be related to an array of psychiatric problems. Here, we question the relationship between childhood traumatic experiences and the sensory complexity of hallucinations in a cohort of 75 children and adolescents. We evidence a positive link between the number of sensory modalities involved in hallucinations and history of childhood trauma, even after controlling for the co-occurrence of suicidal ideation or the number of ICD-10 diagnoses. These findings support initiatives in which a routine exploration of traumatic events in childhood is performed when multimodal hallucinations are present.

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Assessing early-onset hallucinations in the touch-screen generation

Cited by 14 publications

References 12 publications

Hallucinations in Children and Adolescents: An Updated Review and Practical Recommendations for Clinicians

Hallucinations in Children and Adolescents: An Updated Review and Practical Recommendations for Clinicians

Autonomic Regulation and Auditory Hallucinations in Individuals With Schizophrenia: An Experience Sampling Study

Association between childhood trauma and multimodal early-onset hallucinations

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