Musicogenic seizure
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Musicogenic seizure
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#2Fascinating but why not, light stimulation is well accepted.
It seems odd to me that the article lists anti-seizure medication last among proposed management.
That said, the absolute worst trigger I know of is stress relief. YES. You read that right. Some people have neurological conditions triggered by the relief of stress.
Migrains and epilepsy, once you relax. What a hellish experience
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#3Fascinating but why not, light stimulation is well accepted. It seems odd to me that the article lists anti-seizure medication last among proposed management. That said, the absolute worst trigger I know of is stress relief. YES. You read that right. Some people have neurological conditions triggered by the relief of stress. Migrains and epilepsy, once you relax. What a hellish experience
What you wrote about stress relief is interesting. I wonder if that's a contributor to having a "Type A" personality - people needing to feel like they're in high gear all the time.
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#4Fascinating but why not, light stimulation is well accepted. It seems odd to me that the article lists anti-seizure medication last among proposed management. That said, the absolute worst trigger I know of is stress relief. YES. You read that right. Some people have neurological conditions triggered by the relief of stress. Migrains and epilepsy, once you relax. What a hellish experience
in folk medicine that is known as a "healing crisis" .. you let the pressure off of some condition that your body has temporarily halted, and like draining a boil, all the yuck comes out. Oddly this has parallels in emotional therapy too.
Modern strong pain-killers literally mask and prevent these internal system rebalancing, along with emotional flatline response. Humans are complex!
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#5I was epileptic throughout puberty. After it was diagnosed and i understood what was happening, i started to recognize the feeling of absence/petite mal seizures before they happened. I used to refer to it as an "aura" because i had no better way to phrase it. Medication was a silver bullet for me and it all went away by my early 20s.
I've not had a seizure since, but the closest i have come to experiencing that "aura"-like sensation since has been times of extreme auditory load: loud, frantic music mixed with hustle and bustle around me. And i'm a regular (sober) concert attendee. I've never had a seizure from these situations, but the article puts to words a sensation i've never really voiced to others.
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#6Given that sound and light can cause "abnormal brain activity" that can cause seizures - is it possible that there is also an erratic thought you can think that can cause seizures?
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#7I was epileptic throughout puberty. After it was diagnosed and i understood what was happening, i started to recognize the feeling of absence/petite mal seizures before they happened. I used to refer to it as an "aura" because i had no better way to phrase it. Medication was a silver bullet for me and it all went away by my early 20s. I've not had a seizure since, but the closest i have come to experiencing that "aur…
Funny, "aura" is the exact term I've heard other people use to describe the same phenomenon. Likewise for the precursor feeling before migraines.
Glad the seizures eased up in adulthood (knock on wood). A former coworker of mine was in a similar boat—childhood epilepsy, responded well to meds as a teen, totally fine as an adult. It's borderline miraculous how you can just... grow out of it, sometimes. Brains are strange!
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#8Given that sound and light can cause "abnormal brain activity" that can cause seizures - is it possible that there is also an erratic thought you can think that can cause seizures?
I’m sure I remember reading a short story about a kind of mind virus.
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#9Given that sound and light can cause "abnormal brain activity" that can cause seizures - is it possible that there is also an erratic thought you can think that can cause seizures?
I’m sure I remember reading a short story about a kind of mind virus.
It’s the entire premise of Snow Crash.