Table 1 The characteristics of the state studies included in the meta-analyses.

From: A review of functional and structural neuroimaging studies to investigate the inner speech model of auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia

Study

Imaging modality

No. of hallucinators

Whole-brain or ROI analysis

No. of foci

Stereotaxic space

Silbersweig et al. [52] (1995)

PET

5

Whole-brain

9

Talairach

Lennox et al. [53] (2000)

fMRI

4

Whole-brain

4

Talairach

Shergill et al. [36] (2000)

fMRI

5

Whole-brain

27

Talairach

Copolov et al. [54] (2003)

PET

8

Whole-brain

6

Talairach

Hoffman et al. [55] (2008)

fMRI

6

Whole-brain

2

Talairach

Sommer et al. [27] (2008)a

fMRI

24

Whole-brain

21

MNI

Raij et al. [56] (2009)

fMRI

11

Whole-brain

6

Talairach

Diederen et al. [28] (2010)a

fMRI

24

Whole-brain

27

MNI

Diederen et al. [57] (2013)

fMRI

33

ROI

5

MNI

Horga et al. [58] (2014)

fMRI

9

Whole-brain

1

MNI

Thoma et al. [59] (2016)

fMRI

15

Whole-brain

9

MNI

  1. PET positron emission tomography, fMRI functional magnetic resonance imaging, ROI regions of interest, MNI Montreal Neurological Institute.
  2. aThe sample of these studies overlapped thus were included in separate meta-analyses.
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