title: Special supplement introduction: hallucinations.
abstract: This Special Supplement presents reports from 11 working groups of the interdisciplinary International Consortium on Hallucination Research meeting in Durham, UK, September 2013. Topics include psychological therapies for auditory hallucinations, culture and hallucinations, hallucinations in children and adolescents, visual hallucinations, interdisciplinary approaches to the phenomenology of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs), AVHs in persons without need for care, a multisite study of the PSYRATS instrument, subtypes of AVHs, the Hearing Voices Movement, Research Domain Criteria for hallucinations, and cortical specialization as a route to understanding hallucinations.
authors.affiliation: Hearing the Voice, c/o School of Education, Durham University, Durham, UK; Department of Psychology, Durham University, Durham, UK; These authors contributed equally to this work. c.p.fernyhough@durham.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fernyhough
authors.forename: Flavie
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Waters
mesh_terms: D003226:Congresses as Topic; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy
keywords: hallucinations; interdisciplinary; psychosis