The Associated Press
GARDEN CITY, New York: Brain surgeons have cured a rare condition in a Canadian woman who went into epileptic fits whenever she heard music by her favorite performer, hip-hop and reggae star Sean Paul.
Stacey Gayle recently underwent brain surgery at Long Island Jewish Medical Center to cure the rare condition known as musicogenic epilepsy.
Gayle, a 25-year-old customer service employee at a bank in Alberta, Canada, was suffering as many as 10 grand mal seizures a day, despite being treated with medications designed to control them. The condition became so bad she eventually had to quit her job and leave the church choir where she sang.
Eighteen months ago, she began to suspect that music was triggering some of her seizures. She recalled being at a barbecue and collapsing when the Jamaican rapper Sean Paul's music started playing, and then remembered having a previous seizure when she heard his music.
Her suspicions were confirmed on a visit to the Long Island medical center last February, when she played Paul's hit "Temperature" on her iPod for doctors. Soon after, she suffered three seizures.
"Being that the seizures could be triggered by the music, this was a very interesting opportunity to study Stacey's brain," said Dr. Ashesh Mehta, the hospital's director of epilepsy surgery.
During the first surgery, doctors implanted more than 100 electrodes in the right side of her brain to pinpoint the abnormal area of her brain.
The surgeons followed that procedure with a second surgery to remove the electrodes, along with parts of her brain suspected of causing the seizures.
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Posted on January 18, 2008 14:31
Damn, never heard of that. I guess you learn something new everyday.
Posted on January 18, 2008 15:21
glad shes all betta now..
Posted on January 18, 2008 15:50
go deh Sean Paul yuh large.... he deserves a medal as so one has ever evoked such a response before. Or maybe something ocultic in his song..........lol any way that is a very strange occurance
Posted on January 19, 2008 08:51
this woman must be sean paul's number #1 fan, i think sean paul should pay hera visit
Posted on January 19, 2008 08:59
i notice whenever negative things are posted on this website they seems to have a lot of commenter leaving comments now looj at a positive story as this one and I am not seeing the comments flowing in like when there is a neagtive story up on vybz kartel and mavado
Posted on January 19, 2008 09:15
i only hope sean paul comes out with another chart banger that will have the whole entire world dancing to his music
Posted on January 23, 2008 23:23
these are the kind of positive stories you people need to comment on and stop support f**kery, I am expecting to see millions of comments on this one but now i know that you people like the negativity that is taking over our music
Posted on January 24, 2008 16:47
Big up sean pual gwaan duh yuh thing from your fan...god bless