Musical Hallucinations From Meningioma
- 20 April 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 241 (16) , 1683
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1979.03290420011006
Abstract
To the Editor.— The letter by Elliott D. Ross, MD (240:1716, 1978), was interesting and instructive. His description of musical hallucinations in deafness brought to mind an unusual case reported by Fay and me1in 1939 of musical auditory and formed visual hallucinations. Report of a Case.— A 45-year-old woman had a history of right-sided convulsions often preceded by an aura of "giddiness" and numbness of the right upper and lower extremity. She later had daily combined visual and auditory hallucinations of groups of persons or "quartets." She could see only the upper half of these persons, and they appeared to her singing church hymns or "Uncle Ezra Barn Dance Songs." They wore apparel of various vague colors. She could never accurately identify them, but the pitch of the voices suggested women. She had episodes of anomia, jargonaphasia, and verbigeration, during which her husband feared she was "going crazy." AtKeywords
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