Source: Corriere della Sera (25 luglio 2010)
La you win it sguardo che delle Bimbe autistiche A Siena
an artist becomes a real tool for care
Luke has passed the 'test of eighth grade with a good seven, after the' summer study accounting: is a wizard with numbers, able to do complicated calculations in mind. But his parents and teachers were afraid that did not exceed the 'consideration, because Luke is autistic: the other hardly speaks and when she heard a noise suddenly gives in outburst. A firecracker, a burglar with the trigger violent reactions, he needs to calm down a whole day. The school is on the main street where he lives: the ambulances to the 'hospital, police sirens are all' order giorno. Sono passate anche durante la prova di italiano, ma Luca è rimasto fermo al banco, tranquillo: ascoltava in cuffia le canzoni di un musical. Lo stratagemma gli è stato consigliato da Claudio De Felice, neonatologo del Policlinico Le Scotte di Siena, che sta studiando gli effetti della musica sui disturbi di tipo autistico, come la sindrome di Rett, di cui esiste un Centro di riferimento proprio nell' ospedale senese. «Si tratta di una forma particolare di autismo su base genetica, che colpisce quasi soltanto le bambine. In Italia sono 1.000-3.000 - spiega De Felice -. Queste piccole vivono perennemente in una condizione di scarsa ossigenazione cerebrale. Alcuni studi avevano già dimostrato che certi tipi di musica migliorano la circolazione del blood in the brain. So one day, after hearing Matteo Setti singing in a musical, I wondered what effect it might have also had his hand on these girls. Matthew, in fact, has an extraordinary voice violin, featuring all 'examination spectrometer from regular sine waves, "soft" like a violin, which makes it very relaxing, unlike the voices of other famous artists, which are instead marked peaks and deep "sharp", capable of inducing stress in the audience. " Matthew has appeared repeatedly in front of tens of Rett girls. With surprising results: the 'blood oxygenation in small increases of more than 10 percent, returning to normal, increases the perfusion blood in the tissues, reduces oxidative stress and heart rate. The girls are relaxing and also reduce the symptoms of the disease, "Increase 's attention and disappear all the time repeated local movements such as rubbing and clapping. The girls, who usually do not speak or communicate, smiles and vocalizations hint "says the doctor. It also happens in children with other forms of autism, but not with any music: we need a tune with certain intervals between the notes and the songs are better sung. The item then must be relaxed (as the voice of the violin, in fact) and serves both the eye contact: the 'live effect is powerful, with more than' a DVD or listening to recorded music live, because children with autistic spectrum disorders often are not interested in front of the screen. Matteo Setti Even if n 'is realized: "All' beginning was hard to sing to girls, because they did not communicate in any way. Then I realized that the key was looking into the eyes, and we managed to establish contact. " Music can thus become a means to get better, but also allow drivers to express their emotions. E c 'and' other 'music momentarily decreases oxidative stress of Rett patients, so we wondered how we could reduce it longer and, thinking strange predilection for fish of many Rett girls, we have tried to administer loro due acidi grassi omega-tre ogni giorno - prosegue De Felice -. Dopo tre mesi si sono visti i primi effetti, confermati poi a 24 mesi: si riducono i marcatori di stress ossidativo, i punteggi di gravità della malattia, le crisi epilettiche. Ora puntiamo quindi anche su questo aspetto per cercare di aiutare queste bambine». Elena Meli RIPRODUZIONE RISERVATA Il team Claudio De Felice (nella foto sopra) è il medico del Policlinico Le Scotte, di Siena che sperimenta gli effetti della voce del cantante Matteo Setti (nella foto sotto, durante un test in laboratorio) sui disturbi di tipo autistico. Setti (protagonista di musical come «Notre Dame de Paris» e «Casanova, amori e inganni a Venezia») ha una voce «violino», caratterizzata that is, to 'spectrometric analysis, by regular sine waves, "soft" as those of a violin, of course, making it very relaxing. Other voices of famous singers, with triangular sharp peaks, deep, loose, instead of inducing stress in the listener and are defined in the parlance, "cute." Elena Meli
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