Musical Hallucinations In An Alcohol Withdrawal State
- Author:
Aniket Bansode
;
Chetan Lokhande
;
Sanjay Kukreja
;
Avinash De Sousa
;
Nilesh Shah
;
Sushma Sonavane
- Publication Type:Case Reports
- Keywords:
Musical Hallucination;
Alcohol;
Withdrawal;
Addiction;
Auditory Hallucination
- From:ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry
2014;15(2):205-208
- CountryMalaysia
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
Objective: We report a rare case of musical hallucination in a male who had a
history of alcohol consumption for 25 years. Methods: We present a 47-year-male
with a history of alcohol consumption since 25 years presented with fearfulness,
hearing voices and decreased sleep for 8 days. The last drink was 12 days prior
to presentation. Results: The patient was diagnosed to have alcohol withdrawal
syndrome and had musical hallucination whereby he heard voices reading a
poem in a rhyming manner. These voices threatened him in these musical
rhyming ways that they would make him go mad, would not allow him to sleep
and would kill him and his family members. Conclusion: Musical hallucination
has heterogeneous clinical and pathophysiological etiology, and has been
reported in the elderly and in those with hearing impairment, central nervous
system disorders and psychiatric disorders. Musical hallucination is very rare in
alcohol withdrawal syndrome. The treatment of musical hallucination includes
carbamazepine, clomipramine and Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).
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