Music Therapy for Patients Suffering from Dementia
Recent scientific studies have proven that music therapy has beneficial effects on the brain, and can be used to treat conditions such as mood disorders, and help patients going through stroke recovery. Furthermore, neurologists and other specialists in this field have only recently begun to comprehend how music therapy affects the brain. What they found was that our brain patterns change radically while we are listening to music. Brain scans show that apart from stimulating regions of the brain in charge of processing sound, there was a significant increase in brain activity in parts responsible for emotion, reasoning, language and memory.
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