TITLE
Can Music Help People With Epilepsy?
DESCRIPTION
Can music help those with epilepsy? Researchers using randomized trials of music and silence found that brain waves of those with temporal lobe epilepsy synchronized with the music suggesting that a possible treatment (along with other therapies) might be developed. The researchers found significantly higher levels of brainwave activity in participants when they were listening to music. “More important, said Charyton (in the APA link), brainwave activity in people with epilepsy tended to synchronize more with the music, especially in the temporal lobe, than in people without epilepsy.” “Charyton said this research suggests music might be a novel intervention used in conjunction with traditional treatment to help prevent seizures in people with epilepsy.”
SOURCE
Huffington Post, August 11, 2015, by Carolyn Gregoire
APA, Convention Report, August 9, 2015
LINK TO RESOURCE
(shortened URL) Huffington Post http://tinyurl.com/qzg5p8f
Link to Original:
http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2015/08/music-epilepsy.aspx
(shortened URL) http://tinyurl.com/p7dmrxj
CLASS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
•Have the students discuss the neurological causes of epilepsy.
•Discuss what is going on in the brain in temporal epilepsy that leads to seizures.
•Further, open the discussion to split brain research.
•Have the students discuss where and how music is processed in the brain.
•Discuss how the processing of the music might synchronize in the temporal lobes for those experiencing epilepsy.
•After reading the APA press release, open a discussion of how the scientific method can be used to study neuropsychological processes and problems.
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