Reduction and Prevention of Seizure Occurrence From Exposure to Auditory Stimulation in Individuals With Neurological Handicaps

Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Seizures; Epilepsy

Treatments: Other: Music Exposure

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01459692

HR15863

Details and patient eligibility

About

Neurologically-impaired individuals may have significant neurologic morbidity related to epilepsy and seizure disorders. Finding safe, noninvasive methods of decreasing seizures, and potentially reversing the epileptogenic process, is of paramount importance in improving the lives of those with epilepsy.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Resident of Thad E. Saleeby Center
• Epilepsy or seizure disorder
• At least one year of detailed seizure reporting prior to study starting date

Exclusion criteria

• Severe hearing impairment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Control group - No Music Exposure

No Intervention group

Description:

Subjects that were assigned to the control group of the study were not exposed to music.

Music Exposure

Experimental group

Description:

The treatment subjects were randomly assigned to receive nightly exposure to music at periodic intervals between the hours of 9:00 PM and 8:00 AM.

Treatment:

Other: Music Exposure