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Differential diagnosis of palinacousis in a psychiatric patient

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.8.1067

Palinacousis is a relatively rare neurological phenomenon that may be misdiagnosed in psychiatric patients if it is not differentiated from the auditory hallucinations of psychotic illness. The authors present a case of palinacousis that responded to phenytoin.

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