Those Who Hear Music: Three Cases on Musical Hallucinations

Musical hallucination carries no diagnostic significance on its own. However, it is an interesting phenomenon which can occur in various organic and psychiatric disorders. We report three patients who presented with musical hallucinations due to different aetiologies, namely, due to hearing impairme...

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Autores principales: Doluweera, Yasira, Suraweera, Chathurie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6040295/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30050719
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/9361382
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description Musical hallucination carries no diagnostic significance on its own. However, it is an interesting phenomenon which can occur in various organic and psychiatric disorders. We report three patients who presented with musical hallucinations due to different aetiologies, namely, due to hearing impairment, intracerebral haemorrhage, and schizophrenia. The case series also highlights the fact that different aetiologies should be managed differently for the patients to be benefited.
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spelling pubmed-60402952018-07-26 Those Who Hear Music: Three Cases on Musical Hallucinations Doluweera, Yasira Suraweera, Chathurie Case Rep Psychiatry Case Report Musical hallucination carries no diagnostic significance on its own. However, it is an interesting phenomenon which can occur in various organic and psychiatric disorders. We report three patients who presented with musical hallucinations due to different aetiologies, namely, due to hearing impairment, intracerebral haemorrhage, and schizophrenia. The case series also highlights the fact that different aetiologies should be managed differently for the patients to be benefited. Hindawi 2018-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6040295/ /pubmed/30050719 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/9361382 Text en Copyright © 2018 Yasira Doluweera and Chathurie Suraweera. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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