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ArticleCureus2024

Musical Hallucinations in an Elderly Female With Hearing Loss.

Jacqueline Cavendish, Lynne J Goebel

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Article in Cureus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jacqueline CavendishInternal Medicine, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University, Huntington, USA.
Lynne J GoebelInternal Medicine and Geriatrics, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University, Huntington, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Musical hallucinations (MH) are rare auditory phenomena in which patients perceive music without a known source. Risk factors for MH include hearing loss, older age, female gender, epilepsy, and certain medications. This case report details the presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of an 82-year-old woman who developed MH following the onset of hearing loss. Despite treatment attempts with gabapentin, quetiapine, and donepezil, the symptoms persisted, demonstrating the difficulty in treating this condition.

Indexed as

auditory charles bonnet syndromehearing lossmusical ear syndromemusical hallucinationssensorineural hearing loss

Identifiers

PMID39634986
PMCPMC11616730

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