The brains of people amongst epilepsy look to react to music differently from the brains of those who create non bring the disorder, a finding that could Pb to novel therapies to forbid seizures, according to query presented at the American Psychological Association's 123rd Annual Convention
We believe that music could potentially live used equally an intervention to assist people amongst epilepsy," said Christine Charyton, PhD, adjunct assistant professor together with visiting assistant professor of neurology at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, who presented the research.
Approximately eighty per centum of epilepsy cases are what is known equally temporal lobe epilepsy, inward which the seizures look to originate inward the temporal lobe of the brain. Music is processed inward the auditory cortex inward this same percentage of the brain, which was why Charyton wanted to written report the lawsuit of music on the brains of people amongst epilepsy.
Charyton together with her colleagues compared the musical processing abilities of the brains of people amongst together with without epilepsy using an electroencephalogram, where electrodes are attached to the scalp to honor together with tape brainwave patterns. They collected information from 21 patients who were inward the epilepsy monitoring unit of measurement at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center betwixt September 2012 together with May 2014.
The researchers recorded brainwave patterns piece patients listened to 10 minutes of silence, followed past times either Mozart's Sonata inward D Major, Andante Movement II (K448) or John Coltrane's rendition of My Favorite Things, a 2nd 10-minute menstruation of silence, the other of the ii musical pieces together with lastly a 3rd 10-minute menstruation of silence. The gild of the music was randomized, pregnant only about participants listened to Mozart outset together with other participants listened to Coltrane first.
The researchers establish significantly higher levels of brainwave action inward participants when they were listening to music. More important, said Charyton, brainwave action inward people amongst epilepsy tended to synchronize to a greater extent than amongst the music, peculiarly inward the temporal lobe, than inward people without epilepsy.
"We were surprised past times the findings," said Charyton. "We hypothesized that music would live processed inward the encephalon differently than silence. We did non know if this would live the same or dissimilar for people amongst epilepsy."
While she does non believe music would supervene upon electrical flow epilepsy therapy, Charyton said this query suggests music mightiness live a novel intervention used inward conjunction amongst traditional handling to assist forbid seizures inward people amongst epilepsy.