In something CNN is calling an “exercise in empathy,” Anderson Cooper recently underwent a simulation for schizophrenia. Here’s how it worked. Cooper wore headphones for an afternoon which played ...

LONGVIEW, Texas -- Social worker Roy Brady said investing about 10 minutes to sit through a simulated schizophrenia experience gave him a new appreciation of what people with the mental illness go ...

She also liked that the simulation referenced the conflict the disease can create with the taking of medication, as the voices shouted “It’s poison!” “Don’t open it.” Rebecca Perkins, day ...

For a recent segment on his CNN show 360, Anderson Cooper spends a day wearing a “schizophrenia simulator”—basically headphones that mimic what it’s like to hear voices constantly in your head. The ...