Open Access“Radio Inside My Head”: A Curious Case of Early Onset “Stuck Song Syndrome” or Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder with Predominant Musical Obsession
Author(s) -
Subrata Naskar,
Robin Victor,
Kamal Nath,
Hasina Anjuman Choudhury
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of psychological medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 0975-1564
pISSN - 0253-7176
DOI - 10.4103/0253-7176.207333
Subject(s) - musical , psychology , dilemma , presentation (obstetrics) , phenomenology (philosophy) , obsessive compulsive , phenomenon , head (geology) , cognitive psychology , literature , art , medicine , epistemology , philosophy , psychiatry , geomorphology , radiology , geology
Musical obsessions also called "stuck song syndrome" is a topic of limited research. It is among the most poorly understood and rare phenomenology. There are only a few cases reported across the world which describes it. Subjects usually present with complaints of continuous play of a musical tune in the head which the subject is unable to remove. Because of its similarity in presentation with auditory musical hallucination, it presents a diagnostic dilemma to the clinician. Here, we present the case of a 25-year-old man who presented with this particular phenomenon, and the approach we took to manage it.