Musical hallucinations: prevalence in psychotic and nonpsychotic outpatients.
| Autor: | Hermesh H; Outpatient Department, Geha Mental Health Center, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petach Tiqva 49100, Israel., Konas S, Shiloh R, Dar R, Marom S, Weizman A, Gross-Isseroff R |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of clinical psychiatry [J Clin Psychiatry] 2004 Feb; Vol. 65 (2), pp. 191-7. |
| DOI: | 10.4088/jcp.v65n0208 |
| Abstrakt: | Background: Musical hallucinations have been considered a rare manifestation of psychotic states or brain and hearing abnormalities. However, an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) assessment tool refers to musical hallucinations and our preliminary study showed that about one third of OCD patients experienced musical hallucinations. Aims: To elucidate the lifetime prevalence of musical hallucinations among psychotic and nonpsychotic psychiatric outpatients. Methods: Lifetime experience of musical hallucinations was examined with a specially designed structured interview in 190 consecutive outpatients with diagnoses of anxiety, affective, and schizophrenia disorders. Results: Musical hallucinations occurred in more than one fifth of all diagnoses. The prevalence of musical hallucinations was highest in OCD patients (41%). Musical hallucinations were significantly more frequent with more comorbid disorders, and logistic regression revealed that this finding was mainly due to OCD combined with either social phobia or schizophrenia. Conclusion: Musical hallucinations are more common among psychiatric patients than previously reported and are more suggestive of OCD than of other mental disorders. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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