The Effect of Mozart's Music in Severe Epilepsy: Functional and Morphological Features.
Psychiatr Danub
; 31(Suppl 3): 467-474, 2019 Sep.
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ABSTRACT
Music is a very important factor in everyday life, involving mood, emotions and memories. The effect of music on the brain is very debated. Certainly, music activates a complex network of neurones in auditory areas, mesolimbic areas, cerebellum and multisensory areas. In particular, music exerts its effects on the brain of patients with epilepsy, having a dichotomous influence it can either be seizure-promoting in musicogenic epilepsy or antiepileptic. Several studies have shown that seizure-prone neural networks may be stimulated by certain periodicities while other frequencies may prevent seizure activity. There are a lot of data in the literature about the so-called "Mozart effect" (Rauscher et al. 1993). In previous studies we observed that in institutionalized subjects with severe/profound intellectual disability and drug-resistant epilepsy, a systematic music listening protocol reduced the frequency of seizures in about 50% of the cases. In this study we are conducting a survey on the observation of what happens to the brain of patients suffering from drug-resistant epilepsy through electroencephalographic investigations, brain MRI and behavioural analysis before and after six months of listening to Mozart music (Sonata K.448). The first step is to present the data of the first patient under investigation.
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Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Convulsiones
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Epilepsia
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Música
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Musicoterapia
Tipo de estudio:
Qualitative_research
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Psychiatr Danub
Asunto de la revista:
PSIQUIATRIA
Año:
2019
Tipo del documento:
Article