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Neurophysiological and Behavioral Responses to Music Therapy in Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States

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Assessment of awareness for those with disorders of consciousness is a challenging under- taking, due to the complex presentation of the population. Debate surrounds whether behavioral assessments provide greatest accuracy in diagnosis compared to neuro-imaging methods, and despite development...
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Neuroscientific and neuroanthropological perspectives in music therapy research and practice with patients with disorders of consciousness

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A growing understanding of music therapy with patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC) has developed from observing behavioral changes and using these to gain new ways of experiencing this research environment and setting. Neuroscience provides further insight into the effects of music t...
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Singing in the brain: neurobiology of singing in the psychotherapeutic context

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Abstracts of the 10th European Music Therapy Conference Singing_in_the_brain_neurobiology_of_sin
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Brain disorders and the biological role of music

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Despite its evident universality and high social value, the ultimate biological role of music and its connection to brain disorders remain poorly under- stood. Recent findings from basic neuroscience have shed fresh light on these old problems. New insights provided by clinical neuroscience conc...
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Music as Medicine: The Science of How Music Can Help Induce Sleep, Relieves Anxiety and Pain in Patients

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This manuscript was abstracted from a lecture for grand rounds for medical physicians. This paper explores the science of how music can help induce sleep relieves anxiety, and pain in patients. This method has been practiced from decades as a way to treat neurological conditions. Now, advances ...
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Music Therapy within Psychotherapeutic Models and its effects

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Psychotherapy is a method of treatment for issues of an emotional nature where a trained individual deliberately establishes a professional relationship with the object of removing, modifying, or retarding existing symptoms, of mediating disturbed patterns of behaviour, and of encouraging heal...
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Music and Imagery Therapy part 3 Music and Neuroscience

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Since the dawn of time, men have used music to express and share emotions, Shamans, curators, therapists of every place and time, they have could not ignore the manifestations with which music has always influenced our cultures, our hearts and our minds. The human being is an emotional animal...
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Interplay between music, emotion and cognitive function in health and disease

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Music is one of the oldest and most powerful means to afford communication and convey emotion. Here I review recent research on the inter-relations between music, emotion and cognitive function both in healthy individuals and neurological patients with brain damage. This topic is timely given...
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Are We Doing More Than We Know? Possible Mechanisms of Response to Music Therapy

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Due to advances in medical knowledge the population of older adults struggling with issues of aging like Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), and stroke is growing. There is a need for therapeutic interventions to provide adaptive strategies to sustain quality of life, decrease ...
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Music and Steroids – Music Facilitates Steroid–Induced Synaptic Plasticity

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Music and medicine have always been closely related. This remains true even in hunter- gatherer cultures that are thought to reflect primitive human forms, as clarified by cultural anthropological and ethno-musicological studies (Lee & Daly, 2005; Merriam & Merriam, 1964). Interestingl...
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Music and Brain Circuitry: Strategies for Strengthening Evidence-Based Research for Music-Based Interventions

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The neuroscience of music and music-based interventions (MBIs) is a fascinating but challenging research field. While music is a ubiquitous component of every human society, MBIs may encompass listening to music, performing music, music-based movement, undergoing music education and training, o...
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Music and Brain Plasticity: How Sounds Trigger Neurogenerative Adaptations

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This contribution describes how music can trigger plastic changes in the brain. We elaborate on the concept of neuroplasticity by focusing on three major topics: the ontogenetic scale of musical development, the phenomenon of neuroplasticity as the outcome of inter- actions with the sounds and ...
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