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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

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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. Abstract This paper describes the development of Vibroacoustic Sound Therapy, an approach which is being developed for use in special schools f...
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Music Improves Mood and Decreases Depression

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Music Improves Mood and Decreases Depression Music's ability to "heal the soul" is the stuff of legend in every culture. Many people find that music lifts their spirits. Modern research tends to confirm music's psychotherapeutic benefits.  Bright, cheerful music (e.g. Mozart, Vivaldi, bluegrass,...
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The scalp-recorded brainstem response to speech: Neural origins and plasticity

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Considerable progress has been made in our understanding of the remarkable fidelity with which the human auditory brainstem represents key acoustic features of the speech signal. The brainstem response to speech can be assessed noninvasively by examining scalp-recorded evoked potentials. Morpholo...
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Effects of Low Frequency Sound Treatment on the Consciousness State of the Alzheimer patients Pilot Study

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Effects of Low Frequency Sound Treatment on the Consciousness State of the Alzheimer patients Pilot Study By Dr. Heidi Ahonen, Professor of Music Therapy, WLU, Waterloo, ON, Canada, Director, Manfred and Penny Conrad Institute for Music Therapy Research http://www.soundeffects.wlu.ca Effects o...
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Jean-Martin Charcot and His Vibratory Chair for Parkinson Disease

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Jean-Martin Charcot and His Vibratory Chair for Parkinson Disease http://www.cinahl.com/cgi-bin/refsvc?jid=1744&accno=2010367955 Vibration therapy is currently used in diverse medical specialties ranging from orthopedics to urology to sports medicine. The celebrated 19th-century neurologist...
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Analyzing the FFR: A tutorial for decoding the richness of auditory function

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The frequency-following response, or FFR, is a neurophysiological response to sound that precisely reflects the ongoing dynamics of sound. It can be used to study the integrity and malleability of neural encoding of sound across the lifespan. Sound processing in the brain can be impaired with pat...
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Vibroacoustic Therapy for Parkinson’s, Fibromyalgia, Alzheimer’s and Depression

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Vibroacoustic Therapy for Parkinson’s, Fibromyalgia, Alzheimer’s and Depression 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) At its core, music is sound, and sound is rooted in vibra...
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Vibroacoustic Treatments for Parkinson’s Patients Lessens or Eradicates Symptoms

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Vibroacoustic Treatments for Parkinson’s Patients Lessens or Eradicates Symptoms David Gibson Abstract Objectives The objectives of this study were to gather preliminary data on psychological and physiologic effects of a 20 minute vibroacoustic treatment. The treatment included 4 components o...
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Beyond Words: How Humans Communicate Through Sound

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Every day we communicate using complex linguistic and musical systems, yet these modern systems are the product of a much more ancient relationship with sound. When we speak, we communicate not only with the words we choose, but also with the patterns of sound we create and the movements that cre...
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Binaural Auditory Beats Affect Vigilance Performance and Mood

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Binaural Auditory Beats Affect Vigilance Performance and Mood Abstract When two tones of slightly different frequency are presented separately to the left and right ears the listener perceives a single tone that varies in amplitude at a frequency equal to the frequency difference between the ...
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Binaural Beat Technology in Humans: A Pilot Study to Assess Psychological and Physiologic Effects

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Binaural Beat Technology in Humans: A Pilot Study to Assess Psychological and Physiologic Effects Abstract Introduction: Binaural beat technology (BBT) products are sold internationally as personal development and health improvement tools. Producers suggest benefit from regular listening to bi...
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Intracranial Electroencephalography Power and Phase Synchronization Changes During Monaural and Binaural Beat Stimulation

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Intracranial Electroencephalography Power and Phase Synchronization Changes During Monaural and Binaural Beat Stimulation Abstract Auditory stimulation with monaural or binaural auditory beats (i.e. sine waves with nearby frequencies presented either to both ears or to each ear separately) repr...
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