2023 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 166-171
Auditory hallucinations are one of the most common psychiatric syndromes and have been studied mainly in functional psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. On the other hand, hallucinations are characteristic of organic mental disorders, and are considered one of the core symptoms of Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) . However, auditory hallucinations are not a rare syndrome in DLB, and in our study, one in three DLB patients had auditory hallucinations. The majority of auditory hallucinations in DLB occurred with visual hallucinations, many of which were characterized by “the visual hallucinations spoke to the patients”. Furthermore, factors such as delusions, depression, hearing loss, and women were involved in the development of auditory hallucinations, suggesting that auditory hallucinations in DLB may be caused by a variety of factors, including delusions, depression, hearing loss, and women, acting on the auditory hallucinations.
