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Published on: August 12, 2019
Musical hallucinations following insular glioma resection
Gustavo Rassier Isolan1, Marino Muxfeldt Bianchin, José Augusto Bragatti
1Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. gisolan@yahoo.com.br
Abstract:
Hallucinations can be auditory, visual, tactile, gustatory, or olfactory, and can be caused by psychiatric (such as schizophrenia and depression), neurological (such as cerebrovascular accidents, neoplasia, and infection), or endocrine and metabolic disorders. Musical hallucinations related to neurological disorders are rare. The authors present a case of a patient with a right insular glioma who developed transient musical hallucinations after microsurgical resection of the tumor.
