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| Demographic Features | 78-year-old widow | 29-year-old female garment factory worker | 86-year-old devoted Buddhist female |
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| Songs of Hallucinations | One song she first heard and liked as a young girl 50 years ago | 3-4 current songs with no special preference | chanting “pirith” (a form of religious sermon) |
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| Accompanying music | Accompanying music present | Accompanying music present | No accompanying music |
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| Amplitude | Initially low amplitude but became louder with time causing distress | High amplitude to a level of distress | Slow, rhythmic chanting of the same amplitude. |
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| Memories associated | Pleasant memories of the past | No associated memories | No associated past memories |
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| Associated Emotions | Enjoyed the hallucination | Was distressed with the hallucinations | Pleasant emotions were evoked as a result of voices |
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| Diagnosis | Auditory Charles Bonnet Syndrome | Organic Psychotic disorder | Very late onset schizophrenia |
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| Treatments | Hearing aids | Quetiapine 25mg | risperidone 2mg |
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| Response to treatments | Hallucinations completely resolved with treatment. | Symptoms improved with treatments. | Significant improvement of symptoms and the patient regretted the disappearance of hallucinations |
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