According to a new study, neurologist Christine Charyton of Ohio State University said music may one day help prevent seizures. It's been said that epilepsy patients' brain waves tend to synchronize with music.
When Charyton had patients listen to music and in silence period of silence, Charyton monitored the electrical activity in patients' brains. Every patient in the study whether they had epilepsy or not showed more electrical activity in their brains when listen listening to music than when just sitting in silence. For epileptic patients though, electrical activity in their brains tended to synchronize with the music especially if the patient's epilepsy was based in the temporal lobe. This is a groundbreaking study that shows that music can beneficially enhance epileptic patient's brainwaves.
Charyton did say that music won't be able to replace conventional medical treatments for epilepsy, but it may be used one day to give an extra boost to existing treatments.
