Effect of Music on Interictal Epileptiform Spikes

Abstract

The effect of listening to Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos (K448) on the frequency of interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs) in the EEGs of four children, ages 5 – 9 years, with benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BCECTS) was studied in a prospective, randomized, crossover, placebo-controlled trial at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.

Keywords

• interictal epileptiform discharges
• benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes
• placebo