A new Wellcome-funded study has shown that avatar therapy may help to reduce auditory hallucinations in people with schizophrenia when used alongside other treatments.

The study is the first large-scale trial of this type of therapy. It involved 150 people with schizophrenia who had had persistent and distressing auditory hallucinations for more than a year, despite treatment.

The experimental therapy was first developed by Julian Leff, Emeritus Professor of Mental Health Sciences at UCL, and tested in a pilot study in 2013.

Read full article about avatar therapy and mental health at Wellcome.