Alternatively, it is also possible to interpret that the globus pallidus
is mediating attentional control rather than voice-specific
processing. The basal ganglia have been implicated in treatment
intervention of schizophrenia [19], as well as its dopaminergic
relation to the schizophrenia pathology [20]. Specifically, disrupted
attention has been proposed to be involved in hallucinations
[21,22] and attention has been shown to modulate auditory hallucination
in non-clinical individuals with auditory hallucination
[23,24]. While the effectiveness of atypical antipsychotics to hallucinations
are well known [25], atypical antipsychotics were