Differential diagnosis of palinacousis in a psychiatric patient.
Palinacousis is a relatively rare neurological phenomenon that may be misdiagnosed in psychiatric patients if it is not differentiated from the auditory hallucinations of psychotic illness. The authors present a case of palinacousis that responded to phenytoin.
D000368:Aged; D001307:Auditory Perception; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D010672:Phenytoin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology
D010672:Phenytoin