Mind-pops are those little thoughts, words, images or tunes that suddenly pop into your mind at unexpected times and are totally unrelated to your current activity<\/strong>. These involuntary \u2018mind-pops\u2019 have become a topic of scientific study only recently even though they were described long ago by novelists such as Vladamir Nabokov.<\/p>\n The researchers, Professor Keith Laws, Professor Lia Kvavilashvili and Dr Ia Elua, compared the frequency of mind-pops in thirty-seven people with schizophrenia, thirty-one people with depression and twenty-six mentally healthy individuals.\u00a0\u00a0 Their study found that all 100% schizophrenia patients reported experiencing mind-pops, compared to 81% of the depressed patients and 86% of the mentally healthy individuals.<\/p>\n In addition, schizophrenia patients experienced mind-pops significantly more frequently than depressed patients and mentally healthy people<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 Professor Laws added: \u201cMind-pops were more common both in patients who had experienced hallucinations in the past and in those who were currently experiencing hallucinations<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n Based on the findings of the research, the team has suggested that verbal hallucinations, the chief symptom of schizophrenia, may be related to the mind-pop phenomenon that almost everybody experiences, but just manifests itself in a different way<\/strong>!<\/p>\n The full research papers can be viewed online at Psychiatry Research<\/em> at http:\/\/bit.ly\/ACpTcL<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the University of Hertfordshire press release via AlphaGalileo: Almost everyone reports experiencing mind-pops at some time or another, but some experience them more than others according to research conducted… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[201],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2152,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions\/2152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/images\/blogpics\/Thoughts.jpg\" "\\"mind-pops\\"")
Almost everyone reports experiencing mind-pops at some time or another, but some experience them more than others<\/strong> according to research conducted by the University of Hertfordshire.\u00a0 In the paper to be published in Psychiatry Research<\/em>, findings suggest that mind-pop experiences are related to hallucinations in those people suffering from schizophrenia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n