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NCBI ROFL: Pink Floyd hallucinations: not just for druggies.

Explore how De Novo Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation can manifest through seizures and auditory hallucinations, including Pink Floyd's 'Brick in the Wall.'

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De Novo Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation: Pink Floyd's Song "Brick in the Wall" as a Warning Sign.

"A 50-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a generalized tonic-clonic seizure. Before the onset of his seizure, he experienced a vivid auditory hallucination of his favorite song by the band Pink Floyd, "A Brick in the Wall." He had been diagnosed with epilepsy 25 years previously... ...Conclusion: AVMs may arise de novo and then spontaneously become symptomatic. Cerebral de novo AVM should be considered in the differential diagnosis in patients with complex auditory musical hallucinations or any new neuropsychiatric symptoms."

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