A Case of Single Photon Emission Computerized Tomographic Finding in Patient with Acquired Deafness and Musical Hallucinosis after Viral Encephalitis.
- Author:
Gwang Hyun CHO
1
;
Young Chul CHUNG
;
Hwan Jung JUNG
Author Information
1. Department of Psychiatry, Chonbuk National University Hospital, Jeonju, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Musical hallucinosis;
SPECT;
Hearing impairment
- MeSH:
Cognition;
Deafness*;
Encephalitis, Viral*;
Frontal Lobe;
Hallucinations;
Hearing Loss;
Humans;
Imagination;
Music*;
Neuropsychiatry;
Occipital Lobe;
Schizophrenia;
Temporal Lobe;
Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
- From:Korean Journal of Psychopharmacology
2007;18(1):60-64
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVE: Musical hallucinosis is uncommon symptom in the province of neuropsychiatry. Musical hallucinosis is often accompanied with hearing impairment caused by physical illness and is characterized by no psychotic symptoms. In the previous study, musical hallucinosis is related with secondary language center which paly a important roll in cognition and imagination of music and also related with activation of temporal lobe and frontal lobe. METHODS: We report the case of musical hallucinosis with hearing impairment subsequent viral encephalitis. RESULTS: This case is activated both inferior temporal lobe and borderline of left temporal lobe and occipital lobe in the Single Photon Emission Computerized Tomography (SPECT). CONCLUSION: We predict that the result should be helpful to understand musical hallucinosis and auditory hallucination of schizophrenia.
