Thought for the day: Musicogenic Seizures are triggered by music, not by just any sounds or noises. In fact they are apparently “in no way related” to audiogenic or sound-induced seizures which are “attributed to a peculiar susceptibility of subcortical structures”.* Which begs the question -when do sounds and noises become music and what is actually triggering these phenomenal fits?

* Avanzini, G. Muiscogenic Seizures, Ann. N.y. Acad. Sci. 999: 95-102 (2003)

Image: Ictal scalp electroencephalogram. The patient’s EEG shows rhythmic discharges originating from the right temporal lobe during a musicogenic seizure. source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920121107002872)