Music Make Me Lose Control

My father was scanning the headlines and he came across a news article about a woman who had MUSIC-INDUCED epilepsy! They call it musicogenic epilepsy, and according to the hospital that treated her, she is one of 5 such cases in the world today.

Epileptics of this sort experience seizures only while hearing music. For this patient, Stacy Gayle, singing in her church choir and listening to music by Sean Paul sent her into grand mal seizures.

Ms. Gayle found that medication didn't really help with her seizures, so she went to Long Island Jewish Medical Center for treatment. Doctors there determined that her seizures came from a single, abnormal region of her right hemisphere. They recorded the electrical activity of her brain (using EEG) and when they saw that she was going into a seizure, they injected her with a radioactive tracer and performed a PET scan, which revealed that her seizures started in a part of her temporal lobe (the medial temporal lobe). To further pinpoint the abnormal region, they implanted a set of 100 electrodes in the right side of her brain, targeting the medial temporal lobe. Once these electrodes had recorded her seizure doctors were able to remove the exact epicenter of her epilepsy (without giving her any neurological deficits!). She has not had a seizure in the 3.5 months since the operation.

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