Hearing a Seizure's Song
From: Discover Magazine - 05/2014 - page 18
By: Gordy Slack

A Stanford neuroscientist and epilepsy specialist has built a device that
converts brain waves into sound waves to detect types of seizures.

The device, called a brain stethoscope, was designed to help recognize and
detect types of seizures that - unlike the generalized "grand mal" seizures
that leave victims convulsing - present themselves subtly.

The stethoscope picks up brain wave activity through a pair of wearable
electrodes that detect electrical emissions from the neurons beneath them. It
then converts the signals into sounds that are close in tone to the human
voice. Combined signals result in "singing" that indicates the presence and
intensity of seizure activity.

Next year a version of the system will be unveiled at Stanford's Cantor Arts
Center. Visitors will don a headset that will transmit an EEG of their brain
activity to their handheld device, which will convert it into music in real
time. 

Read the entire article at:
http://discovermagazine.com/2014/may/6-symphony-for-a-seizure

Links:
Josef Parvizi
https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/josef-parvizi

Stanford scientists build a 'brain stethoscope' to turn seizures into music
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/september/seizure-music-research-092413.html

Stanford scientists turn seizures into music (audio 2:32)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0T2uB-GLc8