title: Obsessive musical hallucinations in a schizophrenia patient: psychopathological and FMRI characteristics.
abstract: Obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS) are relatively common and clinically significant phenomena in schizophrenia patients, suggesting the existence of a separate schizo-obsessive subgroup of the disorder. Although a majority of schizo-obsessive patients have typical ego-dystonic OCS, a meaningful proportion exhibits diagnostically challenging psychopathological phenomena, psychotic in content and obsessive in form. We report the clinical and functional magnetic resonance imaging characteristics of a schizophrenia patient who developed auditory hallucinations with musical content and obsessive in form. We suggest that "obsessive musical hallucinations", that integrate both psychotic and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)-related features, may be mediated by the brain networks believed to be involved in OCD and in auditory musical hallucinations.
authors.forename: Maya
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bleich-Cohen
authors.forename: Talma
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hendler
authors.forename: Artashes
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pashinian
authors.forename: Sarit
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Faragian
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Poyurovsky