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Article: HEARING NOISES THAT DON'T REALLY EXIST GENE FOR AUDITORY HALLUCINATION IN HYPER-RARE EPILEPSY VARIANT SHEDS LIGHT ON COMMON ILLNESS.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- January 30, 2002
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Here is the verbatim testimony of patients who "hear" sounds in their heads that aren't there:
"All at once, in my left ear I heard a motor, similar to one that runs a washing machine. First, it was a click, like valve springs - adink, adink, adink. Then it went faster and louder, like whackety- whackety."
"A clicking of horses' hooves."
"I heard buzzing or bells ringing, and whooshing, as if I was in a wind tunnel."
"Mainly the thumping of a helicopter."
"There was a noise that sounded like a popgun. It got louder and louder till I blacked out with a grand mal epileptic seizure."
"More than one patient ...