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How Live Viola Music Calms Epilepsy Patients
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Summary: Patients undergoing testing for epilepsy often experience significant distress when their medication is reduced to provoke seizures. However, a recent study reveals that listening to live improvisatory viola music helps these patients achieve a meditative state, as shown by EEG measurements.
This calming effect allows testing to proceed and reduces self-reported stress and anxiety. The research offers promising implications for non-pharmacological interventions in healthcare.
Key Facts:
Live improvisatory viola music reduced the patients’ brain wave frequencies to an alpha state, indicating a meditative, calm state.
The viola was specifically chosen for its pitch range, which falls within the human “safe” vocal range known to activate the brain’s calming systems.
While listening to recorded favorites did not show the same impact, the live, personalized 40-minute music session over FaceTime was clinically effective.
Source: Northwestern University
Patients with epilepsy endure difficult conditions in the hospital to undergo testing. They must temporarily stop or decrease their medications during their hospitalization to provoke seizures. Many feel distressed and anxious. Some are so uncomfortable, they cannot complete their testing.
But when these patients listened to improvisatory music — a violist playing live music who responded to their state of agitation in real time — the patients’ brain waves (as monitored on an EEG) slowed to a calmer state, allowing the testing to continue. Patients also reported decreased feelings of stress and anxiety after their clinical music experience.
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neurosciencenews.com/epilepsy-viola-music-therapy-23856/
Summary: Patients undergoing testing for epilepsy often experience significant distress when their medication is reduced to provoke seizures. However, a recent study reveals that listening to live improvisatory viola music helps these patients achieve a meditative state, as shown by EEG measurements.
This calming effect allows testing to proceed and reduces self-reported stress and anxiety. The research offers promising implications for non-pharmacological interventions in healthcare.
Key Facts:
Live improvisatory viola music reduced the patients’ brain wave frequencies to an alpha state, indicating a meditative, calm state.
The viola was specifically chosen for its pitch range, which falls within the human “safe” vocal range known to activate the brain’s calming systems.
While listening to recorded favorites did not show the same impact, the live, personalized 40-minute music session over FaceTime was clinically effective.
Source: Northwestern University
Patients with epilepsy endure difficult conditions in the hospital to undergo testing. They must temporarily stop or decrease their medications during their hospitalization to provoke seizures. Many feel distressed and anxious. Some are so uncomfortable, they cannot complete their testing.
But when these patients listened to improvisatory music — a violist playing live music who responded to their state of agitation in real time — the patients’ brain waves (as monitored on an EEG) slowed to a calmer state, allowing the testing to continue. Patients also reported decreased feelings of stress and anxiety after their clinical music experience.
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