Evidence for functional abnormality in the right auditory cortex during musical hallucinations.
Right auditory cortex dysfunction during musical hallucinations occurred in an 88-year-old woman, who was otherwise cognitively intact. We assessed this phenomenon with a combination of neuromagnetic and cerebral blood-flow measurements.
Kasai
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K
Asada
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Yumoto
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Takeya
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Matsuda
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001303:Auditory Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D015225:Magnetoencephalography; D009146:Music; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon