Dr, Department of Psychiatry, University of Panamá, National Institute of Mental Health, Panama City, Panama
Ariadna E Gonzalez is working under the department of Psychiatry in University of Panamá, National Institute of Mental Health, Panama City, Panama and had published an article entitled: A Review of Cases in the Literature on Auditory Hallucinations: It would be Possible for Mozart to Hallucinate his Music.
Case Report
A Review of Cases in the Literature on Auditory Hallucinations: It would be Possible for Mozart to Hallucinate his Music
Author(s): Ariadna E. González*
Introduction: A review of cases in the literature on auditory hallucinations, and associated clinical characteristics, to
late onset psychosis and hearing loss is performed. It has been speculated that Mozart was suffering from musical
auditory hallucinations and that he used these hallucinating phenomena to write his works. Musical hallucinations
that appear in elderly women may have different causes and there are few cases described in the literature have been
described in different clinical situations: loss of hearing ability; brain lesions, vascular processes and encephalitis;
consumption of psychoactive substances and psychiatric disorders.
Methods: Cases published in the literature on auditory hallucinations from 2011 to 2019 are reviewed.
Results: Different cases are described, from episodes of mu.. View more»