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Psychiatric patients who have hallucinations in which voices command them to hurt others are more likely to be violent toward other people than those who do not, say researchers after studying 103 patients. “We found that command hallucinations continued to be a significant predictor of violence, even when the analysis took into account other risk factors,” said Dr. Dale E. McNiel of the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute in San Francisco, Calif., the study’s lead author. (Reuters) ...While normal people look at the study and hear voices in their heads saying “Duh!”