Medline ® Abstract for Reference 73
of 'Nonepileptic paroxysmal disorders in adolescents and adults'
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Auditory hallucinations associated with migraine.
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Rubin D, McAbee GN, Feldman-Winter LB
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Headache. 2002;42(7):646.
OBJECTIVE:
Two children experienced auditory hallucinations during migraine (one with migraine without aura and one with migraine with aura). These hallucinations only occurred during headache.
BACKGROUND:
Auditory hallucinations are rarely reported in patients with migraine. These patients often have other psychiatric or neurologic disorders such as affective disorder or epilepsy.
METHODS:
Case report and a review of the literature.
RESULTS:
No other neuropsychiatric disorder was identified in either patient at presentation or upon follow-up.
CONCLUSIONS:
Auditory hallucinations can rarely occur in patients with migraine. Further study of this association might provide insight to any relationship between migraine, auditory hallucinations, and the temporal lobe.
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Division of Child Neurology, Children's Regional Hospital/UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine, Camden, New Jersey 08013, USA.
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