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An auditory hallucination, or paracusia, [1] is a form of hallucination that involves perceiving sounds without auditory stimulus. While experiencing an auditory hallucination, the affected person hears a sound or sounds that did not come from the natural environment. A common form of auditory hallucination involves hearing one or more voices ...
Musical hallucinations. Musical hallucinations (also known as auditory hallucinations, auditory Charles Bonnet Syndrome, and Oliver Sacks' syndrome [1]) describes a neurological disorder in which the patient will hallucinate songs, tunes, instruments and melodies. The source of these hallucinations are not correlated with psychotic illness. [2]
Hearing Voices Network. Hearing Voices Networks, closely related to the Hearing Voices Movement, are peer -focused national organizations for people who hear voices (commonly referred to as auditory hallucinations) and supporting family members, activists and mental health practitioners. Members may or may not have a psychiatric diagnosis.
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder [17][7] characterized by hallucinations (typically hearing voices), delusions, disorganized thinking and behavior, [10] and flat or inappropriate affect. [7] Symptoms develop gradually and typically begin during young adulthood and are never resolved. [3][10] There is no objective diagnostic test; diagnosis is ...
Definition. The term "agnosia" refers to a loss of knowledge. Acquired music agnosia is the "inability to recognize music in the absence of sensory, intellectual, verbal, and mnesic impairments". [11] Music agnosia is most commonly acquired; in most cases it is a result of bilateral infarction of the right temporal lobes.
These hallucinations are the most common type of hallucination, with auditory verbal hallucinations being more common than nonverbal. [18] [19] Elementary hallucinations are the perception of sounds such as hissing, whistling, an extended tone, and more. [20] In many cases, tinnitus is an elementary auditory hallucination. [19]
Auditory hallucinations discussing the patient's thoughts as or before they occur. Auditory hallucinations taking the form of a commentary on the subject's thoughts or behavior. The experience of intrusion of unusual ideas or thoughts into the subject's mind as a result of the action of some external agency ( thought insertion ).
Earworm. An earworm or brainworm, [1] also described as sticky music or stuck song syndrome, [2] is a catchy or memorable piece of music or saying that continuously occupies a person's mind even after it is no longer being played or spoken about. [3][4] Involuntary Musical Imagery (INMI) is most common after earworms, [5][6][7][8][9] but INMI ...