SynthesisJournal of neurology2019
Musical hallucinations and their relation with epilepsy.
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- Detailed clinical characteristics of musical hallucinations in 81 patients.Journal of neurology · 2026Article
- Network dysfunction underlying verbal fluency deficits in newly diagnosed epilepsy: a resting-state fMRI functional connectivity study.BMC medicine · 2025Article
- The neuroscience of music perception: a narrative review.Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria · 2025Review
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- Complex auditory musical hallucinations with ambivalent feelings.BMJ case reports · 2021Article
- Musicogenic reflex seizure with positive antiglutamic decarboxylase antibody: A case report.Epilepsia open · 2021Article
- Magnetoencephalography for epileptic focus localization based on Tucker decomposition with ripple window.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2021Article
- The Spanish Composer Manuel de Falla and His Eyes: The Musical Brain.Neuroscience insights · 2021Article
- Musical Hallucinations in Chronic Pain: The Anterior Cingulate Cortex Regulates Internally Generated Percepts.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Article
- New Insights Into the Anatomy, Connectivity and Clinical Implications of the Middle Longitudinal Fasciculus.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2020Article
- Transient Musical Hallucinations in a Young Adult Male Associated with Alcohol Withdrawal.Case reports in psychiatry · 2019Article
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Abstract
Musical hallucinations are poorly understood phenomena. Their relation with epilepsy was first described over a century ago, but never systematically explored. We, therefore, reviewed the literature, and assessed all descriptions of musical hallucinations attributed to epileptic activity. Our search yielded 191 articles, which together describe 983 unique patients, with 24 detailed descriptions of musical hallucinations related to epilepsy. We also describe six of our own patients. Based on the phenomenological descriptions and neurophysiological data, we distinguish four subgroups of epilepsy-related musical hallucination, comprising auras/ictal, inter-ictal and post-ictal phenomena, and phenomena related to brain stimulation. The case descriptions suggest that musical hallucinations in epilepsy can be conceptualised as lying on a continuum with other auditory hallucinations, including verbal auditory hallucinations, and-notably-tinnitus. To account for the underlying mechanism we propose a Bayesian model involving top-down and bottom-up prediction errors within the auditory network that incorporates findings from EEG and MEG studies. An analysis of phenomenological characteristics, pharmacological triggers, and treatment effects suggests wider ramifications for understanding musical hallucinations. We, therefore, conclude that musical hallucinations in epilepsy open a window to understanding these phenomena in a variety of conditions.
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