Auditory hallucinations: hypothesis in the context of spread spectrum communications.

Among patients with mental disorders there are some who experience auditory hallucinations. Auditory hallucinations are often associated with schizophrenia. However, there are studies that indicate that other patients with affective disorders may also experience auditory hallucinations. The mechanism of auditory hallucinations is not known. In view of the results of biochemical studies of the hearing mechanisms and spread spectrum communications, we present a hypothesis that individuals who experience auditory hallucinations are perhaps receiving and processing signals in a different way. Treatment with pharmacologically active compounds improves the condition of patients with mental disorders by changing the brain function and perhaps the presence of these compounds may also be modifying the way in which incoming signals of varying frequencies are processed.