News today – Music Therapy Helps Heal Brain Damage. Music therapy is believed in the healing of patients who suffered brain damage. Really?
The song that turned out to be heard can create delicious healing to those who suffered brain damage. Because, through a song it can create new pathways in the brain that stimulates the nervous systems back to work, as stated by the researchers.
However, scientists still do more research to get solid data to prove it by studying a case study.
“In 10 years, we’ve just begun to understand how music affects and spread widely throughout the brain,” said Michael De Georgia as Director of Music and the Medical Research Center at University Hospital Case Medical Center, Cleveland, United States, Tuesday (10 / 1 / 2012).
“We are just beginning to understand how the music was so influential. We do not know what can be limiting,” he added.
Since the era after World War II, the physical therapist to observe how the music of a group called Big Band to help traumatized veterans back up and go through life, so that said Lee Anna Rasar, a music therapist from the University of Wisconsin, United States.
Since then, researchers realized that there is a consistent pattern. When a rhythm of music affect people with Parkinson’s disease, stroke and other diseases caused by neurological damage, can get back steps and symmetrical balance in his life. Each boom is able to provide cues to the brain to regulate footsteps.
Now, researchers are still doing more research stage to know in detail how music therapy works. But clearly, through music, the patient can gain knowledge from the description of words and music can make someone be more talk.
This is evidenced from a recent study of six children with autism who all can not speak at all. The research was conducted by a neurological specialist from Harvard University Medical School, United States, Catherine Wan with his students. They get results, music therapy can help the sixth child in articulating words and phrases with better behavior.
Some of these children aged five to nine-year-old could even say a few words after undergoing treatment for eight weeks.
“Therefore, we believe that music has its own power. I think it is important to enter the musical elements in a therapy,”
