Are musical obsessions a temporal lobe phenomenon?

Nompumelelo Zungu-Dirwayi; Frans Hugo; Ben B. Van Heerden; Dan J. Stein

doi:10.1176/jnp.11.3.398

Are musical obsessions a temporal lobe phenomenon?

Nompumelelo Zungu-Dirwayi, Frans Hugo, Ben B. Van Heerden, Dan J. Stein

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Abstract

Obsessive musical tunes have been described in some cases of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The authors present 2 cases of patients with musical obsessions, including findings from functional brain imaging. Both patients, 1 with idiopathic OCD and 1 with symptoms secondary to head trauma, demonstrated decreased blood flow in temporal lobes. This finding is consistent with previous literature on musical and auditory hallucinations.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	398-400
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
Volume	11
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1176/jnp.11.3.398
State	Published - 1999
Externally published	Yes

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