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Auditory hallucinations associated with migraine
David Rubin1, Gary N McAbee, Lori B Feldman-Winter
1Division of Child Neurology, Children's Regional Hospital/UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine, Camden, New Jersey 08013, USA.
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.