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Neuroplasticity and Functional Recovery: Training Models and Compensatory Strategies in Music Therapy

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This text provides an overview of a growing concept related to recovery known as neuroplasticity, and how specific training models in music therapy utilize this relatively recently identified phenomenon. Also, a framework will be provided to help guide the practicing clinician when attempting ...
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Retraining of drug reward, music cues and state-dependent recall in music therapy

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Brain research revealed that pleasant music appreciation is processed in same brain reward areas as euphoriant drugs. This indicates a similarity in processing intensity of emotions in the brain. These insights shed a new light on how music and emotion are linked in the brain. However, patient...
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Addendum to ‘Efficacy of music therapy treatment based on cycles of sessions: A randomised controlled trial’

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The aim of this paper is to provide further detail about the results of a randomised controlled study published in this journal (Raglio et al., 2010, 14, 900–904), in which we assessed the efficacy of music therapy (MT) on the behavioural disturbances in people with moderate-severe dementia. &...
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Music Therapy: An Intervention in Alzheimer’s Disease

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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a worldwide epidemic. Multiple domains including memory, cognitive abilities, language, behaviour, and emotions are affected, resulting in significant disability and distress both for patients and caregivers. The management of patients with Alzheimer’s disease is a si...
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Music facilitate the neurogenesis, regeneration and repair of neurons

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We propose that listening to music facilitates the neurogenesis, the regeneration and repair of cerebral nerves by adjusting the secretion of steroid hormones, ultimately leading to cerebral plasticity. Music affects levels of such steroids as cortisol (C), testosterone (T) and estrogen (E), an...
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Healing power of music

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No doubt music is a wonderful hobby. It makes your free time leisure both pleasurable and profitable. And these benefit can be enjoyed not only by you also by those around you. Hobbies provide a welcome escape from routine. Even if we are content and happy with our present studies or jobs a ho...
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Music as a Functional Tool for Optimizing Neurological Arousal: A Pilot Study

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A theory of neurological arousal is proposed. Neurological arousal is a term for an individual’s intrinsic neurological state, continually driven by predisposed cognitive function and the external environment. With this concept, an individual’s baseline state of neurological arousal can be des...
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A Neurobiological Framework for the Therapeutic Potential of Music and Sound Interventions for Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Critical Illness Survivors

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Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has emerged as a severely debilitating psychiatric disorder associated with critical illness. Little progress has been made in the treatment of post-intensive care unit (ICU) PTSD. Aim: To synthesize neurobiological evidence on the pathophysiology of PTSD and...
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Effect of Musical suspense on Brain activation

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Sophisticated emotions such as joy and sadness results from listening music. Music of different type induce a large numbers of emotions, a particular mental class experiences called feelings. Usually feelings are normally enjoyable but it is not necessary. In patients with the focal neurologic...
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Getting to the Heart: Autonomic Nervous System Function in the Context of Evidence-Based Music Therapy

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As evidence-based music therapy turns its attention to physiological responses, it will need outcome measures that are grounded in an understanding of mechanisms which drive physiological activity. Despite strong indications for the involvement of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) in health an...
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The role of 217-Hz ELF magnetic fields emitted from GSM mobile phones on electrochemotherapy mechanisms

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Electrochemotherapy (ECT), the combination of electric pulses (EPs) and an anticancer drug, is a type of cancer treatment method. We investigated the effect of 217-Hz magnetic fields (MFs) similar to that generated by GSM900 mobile phones, as intervening factors, on proposed mechanisms of ECT i...
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Music Influence in the Recovery of the Young Adults After Stroke- CVA(30-40 Years Old)

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Lately, the probability of a CVA (cerebrovascular accident) suffered a considerably growth in the young population and is still growing, representing approximately a third of all cases of CVA. The reports confirm that the number of CVA among young people suffered a growth of 25% procent in the pa...
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