[HN Gopher] Musicogenic Seizure
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       Musicogenic Seizure
        
       Author : thunderbong
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2023-06-21 16:51 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | psychphysic wrote:
       | Fascinating but why not, light stimulation is well accepted.
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       | It seems odd to me that the article lists anti-seizure medication
       | last among proposed management.
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       | 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.
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       | Migrains and epilepsy, once you relax. What a hellish experience
        
         | mistrial9 wrote:
         | 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.
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         | Modern strong pain-killers literally mask and prevent these
         | internal system rebalancing, along with emotional flatline
         | response. Humans are complex!
        
         | booleandilemma wrote:
         | 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.
        
       | jstanley wrote:
       | Given 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?
        
         | comradesmith wrote:
         | I'm sure I remember reading a short story about a kind of mind
         | virus.
        
           | immibis wrote:
           | You just lost the game?
        
           | lobstrosity420 wrote:
           | It's the entire premise of Snow Crash.
        
         | duskwuff wrote:
         | This is essentially the premise of David Langford's short story
         | _BLIT_ :
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         | http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm
        
       | liquidise wrote:
       | I 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.
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       | 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.
        
         | spondylosaurus wrote:
         | Funny, "aura" is the exact term I've heard other people use to
         | describe the same phenomenon. Likewise for the precursor
         | feeling before migraines.
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         | 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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