Music Actually Heals Peoples Illness

Music therapists use a mix of improvisation and proven techniques to help patients, neuroscientists are looking to uncover the scientific basis for music's healing powers.

Middlesex, United Kingdom (prHWY.com) October 9, 2012 - To get a direct quote :
"The hope of music's curative powers has spawned a community in the United States of some 5,000 registered music therapists, who have done post-college study in psychology and music to gain certification. Active primarily in hospitals, nursing homes, special needs classrooms and rehabilitation units, music therapists aim to soothe, stimulate and support the development or recovery of abilities lost to illness or injury.
While music therapists use a mix of improvisation and proven techniques to help patients, neuroscientists are looking to uncover the scientific basis for music's healing powers. They are trying to understand how music can help rewire a brain affected by illness or injury, or provide a work-around for injured or underperforming brain regions.
By doing so, they hope to better identify which patients might respond best to music and what musical techniques might best help them to regain lost or compromised function.
"Music might provide an alternative entry point" to the brain, because it can unlock so many different doors into an injured or ill brain, said Dr. Gottfried Schlaug, a Harvard University neurologist. Pitch, harmony, melody, rhythm and emotion -- all components of music -- engage different regions of the brain. And many of those same regions are also important in speech, movement and social interaction. If a disease or trauma has disabled a brain region needed for such functions, music can sometimes get in through a back door and coax them out by another route, Schlaug says.
"In a sense, we're using musical tools to particularly engage certain parts of the brain and then teach the brain new tricks -- new tools -- to overcome an impairment," he says.
Neuroscientists are exploring the role of music in treatment of some of the following:
Speech: For about 1 in 5 patients who suffer a stroke, difficulty with speech -- aphasia -- is a lingering effect. Schlaug and other researchers have found that by practicing to express themselves with a simple form of singing -- something that sounds almost like Gregorian chant -- aphasic stroke victims significantly improved the fluency of their speech compared with patients whose speech therapy did not include singing."
Source : http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/01/health/la-he-0301-brain-music-therapy-20100301

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