Musical Hallucinations after Childbirth in a Female Patient on Hemodialysis

Fukunishi, Isao; Kitaoka, Tateki; Shirai, Tetsuo; Watanabe, Susumu

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“…We then excluded all reports of musical illusions, pseudohallucinations, palinacusis, hypnagogic or hypnopompic hallucinations, and obsessions (i.e., “earworms”); only rarely did our interpretation of obsession vs. hallucination (i.e., “earworm” vs. MH) differ from that of the original authors (e.g., Islam et al, 2014). A total number of 276 cases in 147 articles met these inclusion criteria (Colman, 1894; Penfield and Erickson, 1941; David et al, 1944; Mulder and Daly, 1952; Rozanski and Rosen, 1952; Arieff and Brooks, 1958; Rennie, 1964; Ross et al, 1975; Scott, 1975, 1979; Schiffter and Straschill, 1977; Miller and Crosby, 1979; Raghuram et al, 1980; Wieser, 1980; Gilchrist and Kalucy, 1983; Hammeke et al, 1983; Mackworth-Young, 1983; Aizenberg et al, 1986, 1987, 1991; Jonas, 1986; Cambier et al, 1987; Lanska et al, 1987; Patel et al, 1987; Keshavan et al, 1988, 1992; Duncan et al, 1989; Fenton and McRae, 1989; Wengel et al, 1989; Berrios, 1990; McLoughlin, 1990; Donnet and Régis, 1991; Fisman, 1991; Nevins, 1991; Podoll et al, 1991; Shapiro et al, 1991; Vallada and Gentil, 1991; Wagner and Gertz, 1991; Freeland and O'Reilly, 1992; Klostermann et al, 1992; Paquier et al, 1992; Erkwoh et al, 1993; Feehan and Birchwood, 1993; Fénelon et al, 1993; Gilbert, 1993; Inzelberg et al, 1993; Isaacson et al, 1993; Couper, 1994; Hosty, 1994; Murata et al, 1994; Terao, 1995; Wodarz et al, 1995; Baurier and Tuca, 1996; Gertz et al, 1996; Stephane and Hsu, 1996; Douen and Bourque, 1997; Marneros et al, 1997; Thorpe, 1997; Clark, 1998; Fernandez and Crowther, 1998; Fukunishi et al, 1998b, 1999; Terao and Tani, 1998; Baba and Hamada, 1999; Terao and M...…”

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“…MH can indeed be experienced as mild and well-tolerable, but more often they are experienced as severely disabling, leading to impaired quality of life, significant distress, and comorbid anxiety and/or depression. Patients often have difficulty concentrating and falling asleep, and many of them are afraid that they are dementing or otherwise psychiatrically ill (Fukunishi et al, 1998b; Cole et al, 2002; Schakenraad et al, 2006). Occasionally they develop secondary delusions, and accuse others (frequently neighbors) of being responsible for the music.…”

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Musical hallucinations: review of treatment effects

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Background: Despite an increased scientific interest in musical hallucinations over the past 25 years, treatment protocols are still lacking. This may well be due to the fact that musical hallucinations have multiple causes, and that published cases are relatively rare.Objective: To review the effects of published treatment methods for musical hallucinations.Methods: A literature search yielded 175 articles discussing a total number of 516 cases, of which 147 articles discussed treatment in 276 individuals. We analyzed the treatment results in relation to the etiological factor considered responsible for the mediation of the musical hallucinations, i.e., idiopathic/hypoacusis, psychiatric disorder, brain lesion, and other pathology, epilepsy or intoxication/pharmacology.Results: Musical hallucinations can disappear without intervention. When hallucinations are bearable, patients can be reassured without any other treatment. However, in other patients musical hallucinations are so disturbing that treatment is indicated. Distinct etiological groups appear to respond differently to treatment. In the hypoacusis group, treating the hearing impairment can yield significant improvement and coping strategies (e.g., more acoustic stimulation) are frequently helpful. Pharmacological treatment methods can also be successful, with antidepressants being possibly more helpful than antiepileptics (which are still better than antipsychotics). The limited use of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors has looked promising. Musical hallucinations occurring as part of a psychiatric disorder tend to respond well to psychopharmacological treatments targeting the underlying disorder. Musical hallucinations experienced in the context of brain injuries and epilepsy tend to respond well to antiepileptics, but their natural course is often benign, irrespective of any pharmacological treatment. When intoxication/pharmacology is the main etiological factor, it is important to stop or switch the causative substance or medication.Conclusion: Treatments for musical hallucinations tend to yield favorable results when they target the main etiological factor of these phenomena. There is a need to establish the natural course of musical hallucinations, their response to non-pharmacological treatments, and their effects on the patient's quality of life. There is also a need to standardize the assessment of treatment responses, and document long-term follow up.

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Musical hallucinations: review of treatment effects

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“…The most common associated factor is acquired deafness, usually in subjects in middle to later life and more commonly in women. We have now assessed Table 3 Musical hallucination reports Agrawal and Sherman (2004) Fisman ) Nagaratnam et al (1996) Aizenberg et al (1986) Fukunishi et al (1998a) Nevins (1991) Aizenberg et al (1991) Fukunishi et al (1998b) Paquier et al (1992) Ali (2002) Fukunishi et al (1999) Patel et al (1987) Allen (1985 Gertz et al (1996) Raghuram et al (1980) Baba et al (2003 Glbert (1993) Roberts et al (2001) Berrios (1990 Gilchrist and Kalucy (1983) Ross et al (1975) Cascino andAdams (1986) Griffiths (2000 >20 subjects in this category. Where the audiology data are specified, subjects usually have moderate to severe deafness, but the onset of this can be acute or gradual.…”

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Music and the brain: disorders of musical listening

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Kriegstein

Warren

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The study of the brain bases for normal musical listening has advanced greatly in the last 30 years. The evidence from basic and clinical neuroscience suggests that listening to music involves many cognitive components with distinct brain substrates. Using patient cases reported in the literature, we develop an approach for understanding disordered musical listening that is based on the systematic assessment of the perceptual and cognitive analysis of music and its emotional effect. This approach can be applied both to acquired and congenital deficits of musical listening, and to aberrant listening in patients with musical hallucinations. Both the bases for normal musical listening and the clinical assessment of disorders now have a solid grounding in systems neuroscience.

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“…We excluded musical pseudohallucinations in schizophrenia [72] but included 31 cases describing psychiatric patients suffering from purely musical hallucinations, but not from productive psychosis, in which the psychiatric disease can be assumed as the main cause of this perception, 19 of these cases were new ones [28,32,34,36,56,59,60,[73][74][75][76][77][78][79][80], another 12 had been already described by Keshavan et al [2,12,51,54,55]. In 16 further cases, we found psychiatric disorders as a concomitant factor [2,12,30,33,34,39,40,42,44,50,70,81,82].…”

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