Musical hallucinations induced by bromocriptine

Musical Hallucinations 1 Musical Hallucinations: Causes, Conditions and Treatment

Musical Hallucinations in Schizophrenia

Musical hallucinations (MH) are complex phenomena that are associated with hearing loss, brain disease (glioma, epilepsy, cerebrovascular disease, encephalitis), and psychiatric disorders such as major depressive disorder, bipolar disease, and schizophrenia. MH are also commonly seen in people without otorhinolaryngological, neurological, or mental illness pathology.1 In his novel Musicophilia,...

Musical hallucinations associated with acquired deafness.

Two patients with auditory hallucinations beginning after a long history of progressive bilateral hearing loss were studied. The hallucinations included both unformed (tinnitus and irregular sounds of varying pitch and timbre) and formed (instrumental music, singing and voices) components, and were repetitive. They were affected by ambient noise levels; their content and speed were influenced b...

Musical hallucinations: review of treatment effects

BACKGROUND Despite an increased scientific interest in musical hallucinations over the past 25 years, treatment protocols are still lacking. This may well be due to the fact that musical hallucinations have multiple causes, and that published cases are relatively rare. OBJECTIVE To review the effects of published treatment methods for musical hallucinations. METHODS A literature search yiel...

A brain basis for musical hallucinations☆

The physiological basis for musical hallucinations (MH) is not understood. One obstacle to understanding has been the lack of a method to manipulate the intensity of hallucination during the course of experiment. Residual inhibition, transient suppression of a phantom percept after the offset of a masking stimulus, has been used in the study of tinnitus. We report here a human subject whose MH ...