According to the article, “ Is Music a Good Tool for Health “, by Elizabeth Scott, hospitals are using music as therapy to treat different illness, such as depression, pain, movement, and even cancer. First, the author states that research shows faster beats helps with concentration and focus, while slower music calms the mind. However, music has a lasting effect on an individual that is positive. Next, she claims that research also shows music therapy can help with breathing, heart rate, and relaxation. Lastly, she mentions that music can be used to control chronic stress and anxious.…
This book is quite thorough. It not only touches on the effect music has on dementia but several other aspects of how the power of music stirs our brains. It has been an incredible read.…
Cited: Cook, Janet D. "The Therapeutic Use of Music: A Literature Review." Nursing Forum: An Independent Voice For Nursing (1981): 252-266.…
As dementia becomes a more pressing issue, scientists are trying to find a cure for a currently incurable disease. Dementia is a neurological disorder where the afflicted person partially or completely loses her mental ability, leaving her confused and potentially violent. While this definition of the disorder gives a basic understanding of what Dementia is, it should be noted that Dementia is an umbrella term for the many different forms of the disorder, some of the different forms include Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s Disease. Alzheimer’s Disease, the first reported case of any form of Dementia, comes from the psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer in late 1906 when he described Auguste “from Frankfurt who had shown progressive cognitive impairment, focal symptoms, hallucinations, delusions, and psychosocial incompetence” (Gerbaldo, Maurer and Volk 1546). While drug therapies are the focus of most scientists, they are beginning to find that music therapy is a promising candidate as treatment for dementia.…
Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible neurodegenerative disease that causes deterioration of cognitive and behavioral functions in individuals usually over the age of 60. While there is no cure for this disease, there is a wide range of treatments and care. Therefore, doctors and caregivers are constantly working on uncovering the best treatment for this disease. This study focuses on the effects of response-related music stimulation versus general music stimulation on positive participation in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. The researchers outlined positive participation as singing, rhythmic movements, and smiling.…
Part 2 : Explain how your current uses of music might impact your cognitive function. Draw on the research literature from both the “music and the brain” and “music in schools” lectures to support your ideas.…
Music is a very astounding aspect of life. There are many engaging studies into how music can help people heal from various physical and emotional pains and how music can be a way of life for people who are either deaf or for people that have Alzheimer’s disease, which is what I will be talking about throughout this essay. Music therapy, which was mentioned throughout a website article from the American Cancer Society, is a big part of this essay because it describes the importance of music. Alongside with the website, I pulled references from the a journal article on the effects of music therapy for patients with Alzheimer’s disease, from excerpts including Moving to Higher Ground by Wynton Marsalis and When Music Heals Body and…
“Science has shown that when children learn to play music, their brains begin to hear and process sounds that they couldn’t otherwise hear.”(Locker ) This statement by Melissa Locker is continuously backed up by multiple reliable sources from various scientific journals throughout the internet. Even though violent music can cause people to have violent tendencies, music is very beneficial to your brain because music helps your brain to maintain its plasticity and music helps our brains to be able to better interpret specific sounds when you are older.…
IV. Thesis Statement: Whether used for mental focus, or physical and mental therapy, music has a place in the lives of millions of people every day.…
In the text “Is music a good tool for health?” by Elizabeth Scott, the author explains how research has demonstrated the positive effects of music on bodies and minds. Nowadays there are many new programs in health care facilities that use music therapy, which uses music in form of therapy to heal people. The use of this method has been successful that even hospitals have started to use music therapy on some of their patients, who develop problems with depression, muscle tension, stress and to motivate them. Researchers have found that music beats send stimulating waves to the brain and by increasing and decreasing the beats they can control people’s emotions. A strong beat will keep you alert and a slow one will calm you down. Because music can control your heart rate, your body automatically experiences relief, and that’s why music and music therapy prevent and relieve stress and anxiety disorders.…
When we listen to music, it is processed in many different areas of the brain. The extent of the brain's involvement was hardly known until the early nineties, when a functional brain imaging became possible. Once the sound has traveled to the rest of the brain it starts its course through it. This is the real issue though, because scholars find it very hard to precisely pick out the pattern of how music travels through the brain. On the other hand, there are key spots that are noticeably influenced such as: corpus callosum, which separates the brain hemispheres and the functions of the brain. The motor and sensory cortex, where movement and sensory functions are stored. The most important parts however that are influenced are the amygdala,…
In 2009 a study for the journal of geriatric and cognitive disorders found that 24 weeks of Alzheimer’s patients choice of music seemed to really help their memory recall. While listening to romantic music, it reminded them of those special moments that they shared…
Research on the brain has been immense. The scientific study of the brain has become an essential endeavor in understanding human life. Music has been found to have profound effect on the brain. Psychologists and scientists have been looking at the link between music, with mood, work efficiency and concentration for years. In our experiment, we hope to find a correlation between a specific genre of music and greater work efficiency and concentration. We plan to give Miami University students a brief reading comprehension test while listening to a certain genre of music (rock,…
I read the article Music as Medicine by Amy Novotney. This article talks about how there are researchers exploring music therapy to try to improve the health of infants along with people that have depression and Parkinson’s disease. It is said that music can help not just a person’s mood, but also their overall well-being. The participants used in this study were 272 premature infants that were 32 week gestation or older, 42 children age three to eleven from a pediatric emergency room, and 40 Parkinson’s disease patients.…
Words formed into melodies have been the most powerful message, allowing people to comprehend emotion for over 5,000 years. The way words are placed between beats gives a hypnotic message to your body and changes the state of your brain. But is music just that? A series of notes and precisely placed words? This is what I have set out to discover. What effect does music have on humans?…