Musicogenic Epilepsy
1977; Elsevier BV; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/b978-0-433-06703-0.50026-7
Autores Tópico(s)Musicians’ Health and Performance
ResumoThis chapter provides an overview of musicogenic epilepsy. Musicogenic epilepsy is without doubt a clinical entity but a rare one. The syndrome of musicogenic epilepsy may develop at a comparatively late age—that is, after 20. Often the attacks appear without any obvious cause at first, music occurring as the precipitating factor only later. Many of the victims could be regarded as above average in their musical ability or in their aesthetic appreciation, but this certainly does not apply to all the patients. Typically, an attack of musicogenic epilepsy is preceded by increasing distress and agitation, along with tachycardia and rapid breathing, and yet, simple deliberate hyperventilation in the absence of music will not bring on an attack. Although in some patients there have been factors that might raise the suspicion of a psychologically determined syndrome, musicogenic epileptic attacks are unquestionably organic, being often accompanied by tongue-biting, urinary incontinence, and extensor plantar responses. The musicogenic factors vary in nature from patient to patient. Sometimes any type of music may be provocative while in other cases, only one instrument whatever the tune or perhaps just one specific melody whatever the instrument may be provocative. In some patients, the music needs to be continued for many minutes before a seizure results. There is reason to believe that the degree of loudness may be significant.
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