Nonpsychotic Auditory Musical Hallucinations in Elderly Persons with Progressive Deafness
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In general, auditory hallucinations can be “unformed,” with the perception of ringing, chirping, buzzing, roaring, clicking, whooshing, blowing, etc; or “formed,” with the perception of word sentences and musical tones. Auditory musical hallucinations (AMHs) occur in psychiatric disease,1,2 ictal states of complex partial seizures,3-5 abnormalities in the auditory cortex,6 thalamic infarcts, subarachnoid hemorrhage,7 tumors of the brain stem,8 intoxications,9 and progressive deafness.10
Nonpsychotic AMHs, a
Alzheimer’s Disease Therapy: Relating Clinical Information to Patients and Caregivers
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Introduction
Consider this common scenario, no doubt very familiar: A patient with moderate Alzheimer’s disease (AD) arrives at the office with his daughter. The daughter has seen advertisements in magazines and asks for medication for her parent. This not only provides an opening for discussions on treatment and expectations of therapy, but also challenges the clinician to translate the clinical trial data and published treatment guidelines into meaningful information for the patient and his relative. Of course, the type of therapy offered will depend on the symptoms displayed by th
