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Good Vibrations: A new treatment under study by NASA-funded doctors could reverse bone loss experienced by astronauts in space

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NASA-funded scientists suggest that astronauts might prevent bone loss by standing on a lightly vibrating plate for 10 to 20 minutes each day. Held down with the aid of elastic straps, the astronauts could keep working on other tasks while they vibrate. The same therapy, they say, might eventuall...
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Fetal Vibroacoustic Stimulation for Facilitation of Tests of Fetal Wellbeing

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Tests on unborn babies such as ultrasound and heart rate are carried out to check their well-being. As a baby's sleep periods can alter those results, various methods are used to wake the baby. Fetal vibroacoustic stimulation uses a hand held electronic device placed just above the pregnant woman...
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Vibroacoustic Sound Therapy: Case Studies with Children with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties and the Elderly in Long-Term Residential Care (Conference Abstract)

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Sound Therapy was developed during the 1990s in a special school for children with profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD), (Ellis, P. (1997)), and from 1997 in a home for the long-term care of the elderly where the vibroacoustic element was initially introduced. The subject of this pa...
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Music Therapy and Dementia (Book Excerpt)

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The literature on music and dementia points at an increasing interest in music therapy in dementia care. Here different assessment tools using music and musical interaction are described, a few studies examine the sedative adaptation of music, and several studies describe how different approaches...
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Cutaneous Grooves: Composing for the Sense of Touch

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This paper presents a novel coupling of haptics technology and music, introducing the notion of tactile composition or aesthetic composition for the sense of touch. A system that facilitates the composition and perception of intricate, musically structured spatio-temporal patterns of vibration on...
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Good Vibrations: Using Sound to Treat Disease

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Professor Lee Bartel and his team in the new Music and Health Research Collaboratory (MaHRC) at the University of Toronto are exploring the medical effects of low frequency sound and have shown that this therapy can play a key role in reducing the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. https://m...
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The Effects of Vibroacoustic Therapy on Clinical and Non-Clinical Populations (Ph.D. Thesis)

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Vibroacoustic and vibrotactile devices that transmit sound as vibration to the body have developed over the last 15 years, and have been reported anecdotally to produce relaxation and reductions in muscle tone, blood pressure and heart rate. Vibroacoustic (VA) therapy is used in clinical treatmen...
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Vibroacoustic Therapy: Sound Vibrations in Medicine

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Vibroacoustic therapy is a recently recognized technology that uses sound in the audible range to produce mechanical vibrations that are applied directly to the body. The technology uses speakers or transducers placed within mats, mattresses, chairs, recliners, tables, or soft furniture to prov...
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RHYTHM: A Case for Digital Music Medicine

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Some years ago, the Journal of Neuroscience published an experiment we ran demonstrating that specific brain activity underlies specific rhythmic tasks. The BBC picked it up and covered it in a short article. Shortly thereafter I got a phone call from someone from Inter-active Metronome (IM) who ...
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Does Autism Affect Auditory Processing?

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately one in 54 children has been identified as having autism spectrum disorder (ASD), compared with one out of 150 only 20 years ago (http://bit.ly/2Gb9nY5). ASD defies generalization, but it can affect a constellation of socia...
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Descending Control in the Auditory System: A Perspective

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A one-sentence theme of this special issue and of our knowledge of descending control in the auditory system could be “the hearing brain is vast.” The narrowly defined hierarchy of the classical auditory pathway is firmly in the dustbin of history. How we think about sound, how we feel about soun...
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Memory for sound: The BEAMS Hypothesis

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For a musician, keen tuning to the pitch and timbre of one's instrument is important. For a bilingual, the distinctive pitch, phonetic repertoire, and cadence of one's two languages are important. For an auto mechanic, the sounds coming from an engine in distress are important. The listening brai...
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