Dr Michael Hunter MB ChB, MRCPsych

Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry
Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist

Telephone: 0114 22 61514
E-mail: m.d.hunter@shef.ac.uk

Research interests

  • Auditory hallucinations - phenomenology, neural substrata and treatment.

Recent scientific and popular media coverage

Selected publications

Lateral response dynamics and hemispheric dominance for speech perception

Hunter MD, Lee KH, Tandon P, Parks RW, Wilkinson ID, Woodruff PWR, NeuroReport 18:12 (2007) pp. 1295-1299

Impact of Modafinil on Prefrontal Executive Function in Schizophrenia

Hunter MD, Ganesan V, Wilkinson ID, Spence SA, American Journal of Psychiatry 163:12 (2006) pp. 2184-2186

Neural activity in speech-sensitive auditory cortex during silence

Hunter MD, Eickhoff SB, Miller TWR, Farrow TFD, Wilkinson ID, Woodruff PWR, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103:1 (2006) pp. 189-194

History, aetiology and symptomatology of schizophrenia

Hunter MD, Woodruff PWR, Psychiatry 4:10 Schizophrenia 1 (2005) pp. 2-6

Male and female voices activate distinct regions in the male brain

Sokhi DS, Hunter MD, Wilkinson ID, Woodruff PWR, NeuroImage 27:3 (2005) pp. 572-578

Left frontal activation

Hunter MD, Spence SA, British Journal of Psychiatry 187 (2005) p. 89

Visual broadcast in schizophrenia

Hunter MD, Mysorekar S, Woodruff PWR, Medical Humanities 31 (2005) p. 55

Gender-specific sensitivity to low frequencies in male speech

Hunter MD, Phang SY, Lee KH, Woodruff PWR, Neuroscience Letters 375 (2005) pp. 148-150

Locating voices in space: A perceptual model for auditory hallucinations?

Hunter MD, In Voices in the Brain: The Cognitive Neuropsychiatry of Auditory Hallucinations, Hove, UK: Psychology Press (2004)

Characteristics of Functional Auditory Hallucinations

Hunter MD, Woodruff PWR, Am J Psychiatry 161:5 (2004) p. 923

Spatial and temporal dissociation in prefrontal cortex during action execution

Hunter MD, Green RDJ, Wilkinson ID, Spence SA, NeuroImage 23 (2004) pp. 1186-1191

A neural basis for the perception of voices in external auditory space

Hunter MD, Griffiths TD, Farrow TFD, Zheng Y, Wilkinson ID, Hegde N, Woods W, Spence SA, Woodruff PWR, Brain 126 (2003) pp. 161-169

Laterality effects in perceiving the spatial location of hallucination-like voices

Hunter MD, Smith JK, Taylor N, Woods W, Spence SA, Griffiths TD, Woodruff PWR, Perceptual and Motor Skills 97 (2003) pp. 246-250

Approaching an ecologically valid functional anatomy of spontaneous "willed" action

Hunter MD, Farrow TFD, Papadakis N, Wilkinson ID, Woodruff PWR, Spence SA, NeuroImage 20 (2003) pp. 1264-1269