Listening to music composed by Mozart could help control seizures. The news from researchers add to the health benefits discovered in the past that listening to classical music might help people dealing with epilepsy. The findings that were presented last month at the European College of Neurpsychopharmacology; is a large study and based on reviews of literature that might inspire your doctor to suggest this simple intervention, combined with current treatment. Researchers, Dr. Glanluca Sesso and Dr. Frederico Sicca from the University of Pisa specifically looked at how Mozart's music affects epilepsy. Their review included 9 published studies out of 147; based on solid science and of good quality. Daily listening changes brain signals tooMozart's music also changed brain signals that are commonly seen in patients diagnosed with epilepsy, in addition to lowering the number of seizures for people that listen to music daily. Tehe reduction varied between 31 and 66 percent. Dr. …
A new study from Penn researchers shows just getting up and moving every ten minutes can lower our chances of dying, even for people who regularly exercise.
The findings, published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercisecomes from data that included approximately 3,000 people between 50 and 79 years of age.
Tracking the health benefits of just moving
Ezra Fishman, a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania and a team of researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute on Aging and other scientists placed accelerometers on study participants for seven days to gather information about the subjects' movements.
They then looked at who died over the next 8 years.
Sitting still boosts death risk five-fold
When the researchers compared the most sedentary people to those who just moved about doing dishes or other activities they found a five-fold higher chance of dying from being a couch potato or from sitt…
The findings, published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercisecomes from data that included approximately 3,000 people between 50 and 79 years of age.
Tracking the health benefits of just moving
Ezra Fishman, a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania and a team of researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute on Aging and other scientists placed accelerometers on study participants for seven days to gather information about the subjects' movements.
They then looked at who died over the next 8 years.
Sitting still boosts death risk five-fold
When the researchers compared the most sedentary people to those who just moved about doing dishes or other activities they found a five-fold higher chance of dying from being a couch potato or from sitt…