Talk:Musical ear syndrome

Neologism
Google Scholar doesn't recognise this term, although it is mentioned on several hearing websites. Maybe this should be moved to auditory hallucinations? --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 01:39, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * It was coined by Neil Bauman PhD, in 2004 I think. It's had some degree of uptake and is a useful subcategorization that doesn't overlap with eg. Exploding head syndrome, so I think it's fine where it is. K2709 (talk) 09:27, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
 * As a researcher in the field, I must say that it isn't a term that I would use, or regularly hear in use. I agree that this condition should be differentiated from auditory hallucination as it is phenomenologically distinct and has a much different pathophysiological basis. Musical Ear Syndrome is an odd name as it is not a syndrome as such, merely a single symptom, and does not arise from the ear per-se. The term 'Musical Hallucination' is much more widely used clinically, and would probably be a much better and less divisive term for this section. Thomascope (talk) 13:24, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

My understanding is that musical ear syndrome is an attempt to better differentiate pseudo-auditory hallucinations (which spring from tinnitus) and are not a sign of mental illness from classic AVH which *is* associated with mental illness. Anything that helps the sane from being wrongly stigmatized as mentally ill is worth keeping around. TMLutas (talk) 18:25, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

how is this different from earworm something the apparently 98% of people have at sometime or another and i am currently listening to a combination of here it is merry christmas by slade and some song by staind oh and hotel california everytime I play borderlands 2 X-mass (talk) 04:07, 27 December 2012 (UTC)