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Auditory hallucinations in acute stroke.

Yair Lampl¹, Mordechai Lorberboym, Ronit Gilad

¹Department of Neurology, Edith Wolfson Medical Center, Holon, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel. y_lampl@hotmail.com

Behavioural Neurology

|March 7, 2006

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Auditory hallucinations can occur after a cortical stroke, specifically affecting the right temporal lobe. These uncommon symptoms in stroke patients are often reversible within months.

Area of Science:

Neurology
Neuroscience

Background:

Auditory hallucinations are rare stroke complications, typically associated with brainstem lesions.
Cortical stroke-induced auditory hallucinations are infrequently documented.

Observation:

A cross-sectional study followed 641 stroke patients from 1996-2000.
Four patients experienced auditory hallucinations post-cortical stroke.

Findings:

All four cases involved ischemic lesions in the right temporal lobe.
Hallucinations resolved within four months without intervention for all patients.

Implications:

Cortical origin of auditory hallucinations should be considered in stroke patient management.
These hallucinations may be a transient and reversible post-stroke symptom.

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