Mozart’s Music Makes Peace With Patients With Epilepsy
I went to a small public school. It was great for a lot of reasons but everybody knew too much about everybody else. We didn’t have face book so all the bullying took place face to face. One kid suffered from epilepsy and when I say suffered he really did. He suffered from the seizures and he suffered from the cruelty of the mean and ignorant kids who picked on him mercilessly.Modern drugs that might have helped were years away but music, especially “medicinal music”, had been around for a couple of hundred years. I wish I would have known then what I’m learning now. Then the hand of friendship would have also held a recording of Mozart.
New research presented to the American Psychological Association says the brainwaves of people with epilepsy appear to synchronize with classical music by WOLFGANG AMADEAUS MOZART. Most epilepsy cases originate in the temporal lobe of the brain. Music is processed in the auditory cortex in that same region of the brain leading researchers to conclude music could one day be used as an intervention to prevent the onset of an epileptic seizure.
173 years after Mozart’s death jazz musician Joh
n Coltrane released what some consider his best work in an album titled A Love Supreme. Researchers say Coltrane’s music has the same effect on epilepsy as Mozart’s.
Medicinal or not, listen to one of Jazz’s best.
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