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ECT associated musical hallucinations in an elderly patient: a case report

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Title
ECT associated musical hallucinations in an elderly patient: a case report
Published in
Annals of General Psychiatry, August 2006
DOI 10.1186/1744-859x-5-10
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Authors

Raguraman Janakiraman, Keith Wildgoose, Kalyan Seelam

Abstract

Electro Convulsive Therapy (ECT) is a medical treatment for severe mental illness in which small, carefully controlled electricity is applied to the brain. This electric stimulation is done in conjunction with anesthesia and muscle relaxant medications to produce a mild generalized seizure. This is used to treat a variety of psychiatric disorders. This is most effective in the treatment of severe depression providing a rapid relief. We report and discuss an unusual presentation of a ninety three year old lady with a diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder, Recurrent, Severe with Psychotic features (296.34) who experienced musical hallucinations whilst she was treated on ECT. Clinically there was an inverse relationship between the biological symptoms of depression and musical hallucination during the ECT management. Though similar reports have never been reported earlier, we noticed a good association between the initiation of ECT and musical hallucination in our patient. The patient stopped experiencing musical hallucinations and improved of her biological symptoms of depression completely after the full course of ECT.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 35 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 17%
Student > Bachelor 5 14%
Researcher 5 14%
Student > Postgraduate 3 9%
Student > Master 2 6%
Other 5 14%
Unknown 9 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 12 34%
Psychology 7 20%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 9%
Arts and Humanities 2 6%
Social Sciences 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 9 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 December 2022.
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#7,680,234
of 23,372,207 outputs
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#185
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#23,222
of 66,426 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Annals of General Psychiatry
#3
of 6 outputs
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