Abstract
A 51-year-old male patient suffered from both musical and verbal hallucinations with insight. We performed three single photon emission computed tomographic scans with the patient in different conditions: baseline without hallucinations, musical hallucinations, and verbal hallucinations. Clearly, different patterns of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) were observed during musical and verbal hallucinations. The findings suggest that musical and verbal hallucinations are associated with different patterns of rCBF, possibly reflecting the different causes of the two types of hallucinations.
Publication types
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Case Reports
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Comparative Study
MeSH terms
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Basal Ganglia / blood supply*
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Basal Ganglia / diagnostic imaging
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Brain Mapping
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Cerebellum / blood supply*
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Cerebellum / diagnostic imaging
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Cerebral Cortex / blood supply*
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Cerebral Cortex / diagnostic imaging
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Dominance, Cerebral / physiology
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Frontal Lobe / blood supply
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Frontal Lobe / diagnostic imaging
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Hallucinations / diagnostic imaging*
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Hallucinations / physiopathology
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Hearing Loss, Bilateral / diagnostic imaging
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Hearing Loss, Bilateral / physiopathology
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Humans
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Male
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Middle Aged
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Music*
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Regional Blood Flow / physiology
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Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon*