Interesting
If this was a patient of mine and they had passed unscathed through my personality-disordered-assessment filter and my all purpose general is this an odd-ball-gut-feeling-jeremy-kyle-audience-member-ometer then I might consider and offer some antiepiletiform drugs especially those used in temporal lobe epilepsy after an EEG baseline.
There are several case records of brain damaged patients developing intense musical sensations they cannot shift. Oliver Sacks Wrote an interesting ( if only for the first case described) book called musicophilia - recommend it
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Dr Mark O'Connor
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On 2 Jul 2012, at 15:40, jenny sudell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> What is the clinical term for the condition where someone hears music..(Like an annoying catchy tune) but in the extreme, so it interrupts thought patterns and makes it hard to concentrate?
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> Music changes..depending on the mood at the time from Reggae to Classic Rock, to Blues...
> No voices. No other mental health problems, Long term problem, Seroquel just caused memory loss. Brain scan normal.
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