Abnormal musical pacemaker in a patient with musical hallucinations.
Music creation requires a highly orchestrated temporal pattern. The study of a patient with repetitive musical hallucinations enabled us to examine temporal pacemakers in music production. Here, we show that the pattern of faster silent production of a chosen tune compared with its production aloud was reversed when the patient produced the hallucinatory tune. This observation might suggest the utilization of a pacemaker(s), which functions differentially during the disease.
Biran
I
I
Department of Neurology, Hadassah University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel. i_biran@hotmail.com
Steiner
I
I
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000503:physiopathology*; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D002546:Ischemic Attack, Transient / Q000503:physiopathology; D008575:Meniere Disease / Q000503:physiopathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009146:Music; D012016:Reference Values; D013997:Time Factors