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The prevalence and phenomenology of auditory hallucinations among elderly subjects attending an audiology clinic
Author(s)	Martin G Cole, Lorna Dowson, Nandini Dendukuri
Journal title	International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 17, no 5, May 2002
Pages	pp 444-452
Keywords	Hearing Impairment ; Perception disorders ; Audiology services ; Evaluation ; Canada.
Annotation	Auditory hallucinations may be defined as auditory perceptions without an acoustic stimulus. In this cross-sectional Canadian study of 125 men and women aged 65+ referred to an audiology clinic, the prevalence of auditory hallucinations was 32.8%, and included humming or buzzing, shushing, beating or tapping, ringing, other individual sounds, multiples sounds, voices or music. Those with any type of hallucination tended to be younger and had poorer discrimination scores in the left ear and impaired binaural discrimination with lip-reading. Auditory hallucinations are frequent in older people with hearing impairment, and seem to be associated with younger age and asymmetrical hearing. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-020529207 A
Classmark	BV: EE: LA: 4C: 7S
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