Hearing voices is common and can be distressing. Virtual reality might help us meet and ‘treat’ them

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twitter: 24 X users

facebook: 2 Facebook pages
reddit: 1 Redditor

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Title	Hearing voices is common and can be distressing. Virtual reality might help us meet and ‘treat’ them
Published by	The Conversation
DOI	10.64628/aa.qjsuqj45q
Authors	Jameel, Leila, Bell, Imogen, Brand, Rachel, Thomas, Neil
Abstract	The experience of hearing voices can be very different from person to person, and can change over time. They can be comforting or very distressing.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country	Count	As %
Australia	9	38%
United States	4	17%
United Kingdom	3	13%
Sri Lanka	1	4%
Sao Tome and Principe	1	4%
Canada	1	4%
Unknown	5	21%

Demographic breakdown

Type
Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	16	67%
Scientists	5	21%
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	3	13%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 135. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 August 2024.

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#46,752

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Altmetric has tracked 34,399,888 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.

So far Altmetric has tracked 212,963 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 99.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 78% of its peers.