A study has give birth to a possibility that music could help people living with epilepsy and may prevent the seizures. The researchers have come to know that brains of epilepsy patients process music very differently than the brains of people who do not have the problem.

Study researchers from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center said that in their research, they have focused on music and the brains of epilepsy patients as music is processed in the same region of brain, the temporal lobe, where seizures take place for temporal lobe epilepsy.

The researchers gathered data from 21 epilepsy patients, as they recorded the brainwave patterns while they listened to randomized pattern of silence and music. The participants listened to either Mozart’s Sonata in D Major, Andante Movement II or John Coltrane’s rendition of My Favorite Things.

It was found that the participants’ brainwave activity was quite high when they listened to music. The study researchers also found that the brainwaves of people with epilepsy were in more synch with the music, especially in the temporal lobe, in comparison to those not having the condition.

“People with epilepsy may use the music to relax -- stress causes seizures to occur. We want to bring hope to persons with epilepsy and prevent seizures from occurring”, said Christine Charyton, a neurologist at the Ohio State University.