Wednesday, June 11, 2008

When Music is Bad for You

At first glance at the headline, I thought this Scientific American article had to do with the hordes of terrible alternative rock and hip-hop songs that make you long for a seizure to escape the damaging mental effects of shitty music. As it turns out, for Stacey Gayle, music was actually causing her to have seizures. While a rare condition which would certainly make having a normal life difficult, I hope that someone afflicted with this condition, musicogenic epilepsy, would be brave enough to go to a shitty concert, have a seizure, and subsequently sue the group out of existence.

This may be a very effective way to reduce the number of terrible bands clogging the airwaves.

Scientific American: When Your Favorite Song Gives You Seizures

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Thanks for the information on music and health.

We recently wrote an article on how music is good for your health at Brain Blogger. A study in "Critical Care Medicine" evaluated stress levels after patient had listened to some piano sonatas. The results were amazing, but one composer in particular showed the most results when their music was played; Mozart.

We would like to read your comments on our article. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Kelly