[Music as an uninvited guest: the auditive variant of the Charles Bonnet syndrome].
Visually handicapped patients can be tormented by complex visual hallucinations (Charles Bonnet syndrome). Likewise, deaf patients and patients with impaired hearing can be plagued by auditory hallucinations, mostly involving music. Our article focuses on three female patients who suffered from musical hallucinations. In one of these patients the hallucinations ceased when her hearing was restored. In the second patient the hallucinations ceased when carbamazepine was prescribed. Quetiapine reduced the musical hallucinations in the third patient. The differential diagnoses and therapeutic options are discussed.
Tuerlings
J H A M
JH
Rijnstate ziekenhuis, afeling Psychiatrie, Arnhem. jtuerlings@alysis.nl
Wijnen
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Boerman
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Verwey
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002220:Carbamazepine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003987:Dibenzothiazepines / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D009146:Music; D000069348:Quetiapine Fumarate
D003987:Dibenzothiazepines; D000069348:Quetiapine Fumarate; D002220:Carbamazepine