Obsessive musical hallucinations in a schizophrenia patient: psychopathological and FMRI characteristics

Autor: Artashes Pashinian, Michael Poyurovsky, Maya Bleich-Cohen, Talma Hendler, Sarit Faragian
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: CNS spectrums. 16(7)
ISSN: 1092-8529
Popis: Obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS) are relatively common and clinically significant phenomena in schizophrenia patients, suggesting the existence of a separate schizo-obsessive subgroup of the disorder. Although a majority of schizo-obsessive patients have typical ego-dystonic OCS, a meaningful proportion exhibits diagnostically challenging psychopathological phenomena, psychotic in content and obsessive in form. We report the clinical and functional magnetic resonance imaging characteristics of a schizophrenia patient who developed auditory hallucinations with musical content and obsessive in form. We suggest that “obsessive musical hallucinations”, that integrate both psychotic and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)-related features, may be mediated by the brain networks believed to be involved in OCD and in auditory musical hallucinations.
Databáze: OpenAIRE