The horror of "musical hallucinosis"

Carl Zimmer has written a great article for the Sunday Telegraph about a brain disorder called musical hallucinosis. The victims hear loud music in their head, and the songs play over and over again.

When Dilbeck tried a new antibiotic for her Lyme disease the songs stopped, but the side effects of the drug were too much for her. Since she went off the antibiotic, the hallucinations have returned. For some reason they are milder now than before — often just a few notes over and over again — but they're still a burden. "I'm resigned to them," Dilbeck says. "But I'd give $100,000 — if I had it — to make them go away."

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