The link between people with epilepsy and the therapeutic characteristics of music have just gotten stronger.

People with temporal lobe epilepsy have seizures that originate from the same place in the temporal lobe that music is processed from. Researchers from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center have been focusing on this relationship and recently have edged close to a breakthrough, according to Fox News.

During a study, the team gathered data from 21 epilepsy patients. In that study, they recorded and analyzed their brainwave patterns as the patients listened to a random patter of silence, and music. The choice in music by the team was Mozart’s Sonata in D Major, John Coltrane’s rendition of My Favorite Thins and Andante Movement II.

What they discovered was that the participant’s brainwave activity was noticeably higher when they were listening to music. Not only that, but the brainwaves of people with epilepsy actually synchronized with the music specifically in the temporal lobe compared to people listening to the same music who did not have epilepsy.

“We were surprised by the findings,” Christine Charyton, PhD, adjunct assistant professor and a visiting assistant professor of neurology at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, said in a news release. “We hypothesized that music would be processed in the brain differently than silence. We did not know if this would be the same or different for people with epilepsy.”

The researchers were amazed at what they found, seeing that they went into the study with one hypothesis but came out with hard evidence-based answers to a bigger question.

This study will catapult other studies to explore the findings and reconfirm what they have found. Researchers firmly believe that music could in fact be used as a novel therapy for epilepsy in conjunction with traditional treatments already in place in order to decrease and possibly prevent seizures altogether in epilepsy patients.