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Video – Medical Sound Association Overview Presentation

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The Medical Sound Association is a group of doctors, sound healers and sound therapists coming together to create treatment protocols and safety guidelines for using sound and music for medical issues. The primary goal is to help bring Sound into the Medical side of hospitals (as opposed to the I...
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The Power of Sound – Joshua Leeds (excerpts)

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Based on resonance, soundwork creates change through vibration. As a neurologically based approach, applying music or sound can take many forms, from simple tuning forks to sound structures complete with computerized output of highly specific frequencies. The goal of the first tools I will discus...
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Statement from Professor Tony Wigram on the Importance of Music Therapy for People with Rett Syndrome

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This brief report summarizes Professor Tony Wigram's positive experiences in using music therapy with individuals with Rett syndrome, a rare neurological genetic disorder, mainly affecting females, that causes severe muscle movement disability. Effectiveness of music therapy is reported in the fo...
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Vibroacoustic Therapy. Reports.

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Summaries of pilot studies of vibroacoustic therapy in various therapeutic contexts. Reports (vibroacoustic.org) Vibroacoustic Therapy Reports_Olav Skille
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The Argument for Music Education

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The argument for teaching music in schools takes three general forms. The indirect argument posits that music boosts brain and cognitive function important for learning, which in turn facilitates success in school. The incentive argument directly ties the benefits of music training to educational...
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The Power of Sound for Brain Health

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Unlike seen objects, which are reasonably persistent, sound is fleeting. But despite the transient nature of sound and the utter relentlessness of its input as it washes over us, our ears and, in particular, our brains do an amazing job of making sense of it. By some measures, the auditory system...
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Music Improves the Body’s Immune System Function and Reduces Stress

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Music Improves the Body's Immune System Function and Reduces Stress by Novotney, Amy. APA, Monitor on Psychology November 13, Vol 44, No. 10 http://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/11/music.aspx (American Psychological Association) While music has long been recognized as an effective form of therapy ...
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Indications in Music Therapy: Evidence from assessment that can identify the expectations of music therapy as a treatment for Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Meeting the challenge of Evidence Based Practice

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When children with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) are assessed in music therapy, significant strengths, potentials and resources emerge that may remain hidden in other, more formalised assessments. Therefore it is becoming more necessary to develop a systematic method of describing this respons...
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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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