A new study Conducted by Tarjan Rafiee and Taufik Valiante of the Krembil Brain Institute at Toronto Western Hospital, part of the University Health Network, it has an eloquent title: The Rhyme and Rhythm of Music in Epilepsy.
What they conclude is that Mozart's music May reduce seizure frequency in patients with epilepsy.
Rhyme and rhythm
Epilepsy is the most common serious neurological disorder in the world, which affects approximately 50 million people worldwide.
In the study we used the Sonata for two pianos in D major, K. 448 on seizure reduction, compared to another auditory stimulus: a scrambled version of Mozart's original composition, with similar mathematical features, but shuffled at random and without any rhythm.
The researchers recruited 13 patients to participate in the new year-long study. After a three-month baseline period, half of the patients listened to the Mozart Sonata once a day for three months, then switched to the scrambled version for three months. As explained Rafiee:
Over the past 15 to 20 years, we have learned a lot about how listening to one of Mozart's compositions in individuals with epilepsy appears to demonstrate a reduction in seizure frequency. But, one of the questions that still needed to be answered was whether people would show a similar reduction in seizure frequency when listening to another auditory stimulus, a control piece, compared to Mozart.
While these results are promising, the next step is to conduct larger studies with more patients, and over a longer period of time.
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Mozart may reduce seizure frequency in people with epilepsy
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