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Music

MAY HELP

people with
epilepsy

WHEN listening to music, brainwave patterns of of cases. Charyton, PhD, adjunct assistant professor and a
people with epilepsy are different from those who The team collected data from 21 epilepsy patients, visiting assistant professor of neurology at The Ohio
do not have the disorder, according to research recording their brainwave patterns while they State University Wexner Medical Center, said in a
presented at the American Psychological Association’s listened to a randomized pattern of silence and music: news release:
convention on Sunday. This finding could lead to new Mozart’s Sonata in D Major, Andante Movement II “We hypothesized that music would be processed in
therapies to prevent seizures. and John Coltrane’s rendition of My Favorite Things). the brain differently than silence. We did not know
They found that participants’ brainwave activity if this would be the same or different for people with
Researchers from The Ohio State University Wexner was significantly higher while listening to music. epilepsy.”
Medical Center focused on music and the brains of Additionally, the brainwaves of people with epilepsy
people with epilepsy because music is processed in tended to synchronize more with the music, especially Researchers believe their findings suggest music
the same region of the brain as where seizures appear in the temporal lobe, compared to those without could be used as a novel therapy, in conjunction with
to originate for temporal lobe epilepsy, the temporal epilepsy. traditional treatments to help prevent seizures in
lobe. This type of epilepsy makes up about 80 percent “We were surprised by the findings,” Christine epilepsy patients.

David Beckham

DEFENDS DAUGHTER

Harper’s pacifier against
critics

DAVID Beckham scored a goal for parents Beckham wasn’t having any of it, posting a
Monday, striking back against all the critics who scathing response and reasoning for Harper
tell us they know how to parent our children using the “dummy” on his Instagram account on
better than we do. Monday.
Beckham, known as much for his physique and “Why do people feel they have the right to criticize
his wife Victoria as his incredible soccer career, a parent about their own children without having
was reacting to a Daily Mail story criticizing his any facts??” he wrote.
daughter’s use of a pacifier (a “dummy” in U.K. “Everybody who has children knows that when
parlance) at age 4. they aren’t feeling well or have a fever you do
“Experts warn David and Victoria Beckham’s little what comforts them best and most of the time
girl may end up with ‘speech or dental issues’ if she it’s a pacifier so those who criticize think twice
continues to use one,” warned Sunday’s edition, about what you say about other people’s children
posting a picture of Harper in West Hollywood because actually you have no right to criticize me
with her famous father. as a parent ...”

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