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Repairing the brain with neurological music therapy

Finally science is beginning to deal with the music ... therapy! Michael Thaut, musician and professor of neuroscience at Colorado State University, and Gerald McIntosh , medical director of the Center for Biomedical Research in Music offer this exciting research.
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It is a 'new scientific model that has proved effective in treating cognitive dysfunction, sensory and motor due to diseases of the central nervous system. " We are talking of Neurological Music Therapy (TMN), which Cerebrum , revised update of neuroscience Dana Foundation, devoted its front page today.

Biomedical research has led many in time "evidence" about the effectiveness of specific interventions based on music (see the interview on the subject of a BrainFactor Livio Bressan of February 3 last year on "Brain music therapy ).

Moreover "the idea that arts education improves the cognitive abilities is not really so bold, in the context of what we call plasticity paid employment, a basic cornerstone of brain function," as he wrote last year on BrainFactor Michael Posner (Posner M, "How art education improves attention and cognitive functions " BrainFactor 17/09/2009).

The use of music in clinical settings has grown rapidly thanks to neuroimaging, che ha messo in luce questa spiccata “plasticità” del cervello, consentendo inoltre di individuare i network neuronali che la musica riesce ad attivare.

Neurologi, neuroscienziati, ricercatori e clinici che si occupano di musicoterapia, sono riusciti infine a organizzare queste evidenze in un vero e proprio sistema di tecniche terapeutiche, a cui han dato il nome di “Neurologic Music Therapy” (NMT).

Michael Thaut , musicista e professore di neuroscienze alla Colorado State University, e Gerald McIntosh , direttore medico del Center for Biomedical Research in Music della stessa università, hanno condotto ricerche con le quali hanno dimostrato miglioramenti nei disturbi motion occurred in patients who have had strokes or who suffer from Parkinson: "This is possible because the music and share some motor control circuits in the brain."

Here's how the two American researchers summed up the principles of NMT Cerebrum:

• is a therapeutic application of music to cognitive dysfunction, sensory and motor nervous system diseases caused by human
• is based on neuroscience models of music perception and influence of music on behavior change and functional brain-order non-musical;
• processing techniques are based on the results of scientific and clinical research and direct a non-musical therapeutic goals;
• trattaemento techniques are standardized terminology and applicability and fall within the music therapy interventions (TMI), adapted to specific needs of the patient;
• the training of specialists in this "practice" innovative must be relevant to the music, neuroanatomy, human physiology, diseases of the brain, medical terminology, the rehabilitation of cognitive function, motor and language.

Reference:

Thaut M, McIntosh G, How Music Helps to Heal the Brain Injured Therapeutic Use Crescendos Thanks to Advances in Brain Science, Cerebrum, March 24, 2010