Report Chronicles Unique Form of Musical Hallucination

As she was trying to sleep, a 60-year-old woman began hearing music, as if there were a radio playing. But the music was playing in her mind, and she did not know the tunes, ones that her husband noted were popular when she sang or hummed them. This unique situation, chronicled in the journal Frontiers of Neurology, is the first known case of a patient hallucinating music that people around her recognized but that she found unfamiliar. The patient was treated with an anti-seizure drug and saw improvement in her condition. The case prompts researchers to study the processes of memory and forgetfulness since the songs in the patient’s mind were buried in her memory, but she could not access them during a hallucination episode. Click here to read the full article.