Evidence for functional abnormality in the right auditory cortex during musical hallucinations

Lancet. 1999 Nov 13;354(9191):1703-4. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)05213-7.

Abstract

Right auditory cortex dysfunction during musical hallucinations occurred in an 88-year-old woman, who was otherwise cognitively intact. We assessed this phenomenon with a combination of neuromagnetic and cerebral blood-flow measurements.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Auditory Cortex / physiopathology*
  • Brain Mapping
  • Dominance, Cerebral / physiology*
  • Evoked Potentials, Auditory / physiology
  • Female
  • Hallucinations / diagnosis
  • Hallucinations / physiopathology*
  • Humans
  • Magnetoencephalography
  • Music*
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon