Archive for May, 2007
May 26th, 2007 17:05:09
Music Therapy in Pediatrics.
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Music Therapy in Pediatrics.
Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2007 May 14;
Authors: Avers L, Mathur A, Kamat D
The soothing effects of music have been well described over the centuries and across cultures. In more recent times, studies have shown the beneficial effects of music in alleviating symptoms in a wide variety of clinical and psychologic conditions. Music therapy has been primarily used as an intervention to control emotional states, in pain management, cognitive processing, and stress management. Stress is associated with increased production of the stress hormone cortisol, which is known to suppress immune responses. Several studies in the past few decades have demonstrated a positive effect of music therapy on reducing stress or increasing immune responses, or both. Music therapy should therefore be considered as a valuable addition to standard pharmacologic therapeutic modalities in enhancing the immune response and lowering stress levels in such conditions. This article reviews the role of music as a therapeutic modality and the future for music therapy, particularly in pediatrics.
PMID: 17502452 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
May 25th, 2007 2:05:26
[Music therapy as a part of complex healing]
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[Music therapy as a part of complex healing]
Pol Merkur Lekarski. 2006 Oct;21(124):401-5
Authors: Sliwka A, Jarosz A, Nowobilski R
Music therapy is a method which takes the adventage of therapeutic influence of musie on psychological and somatic sphere of the human body. Its therapeutic properties are more and more used. Current scientific research have proved its modifying influence on vegetative, circulatory, respiratory and endocrine systems. Works devoted to the effects of musie on the patients’ psychological sphere have also confirmed that it reduces psychopathologic symptoms (anxiety and depression), improves self-rating, influences quality and disorders of sleep, reduces pain, improves moral immunity and patients’ openness, readiness, co-operation in treatment process. Music therapy is treated as a method which complements conventional treatment and makes up part of an integral whole together with physiotherapy, kinesitherapy and recuperation.
PMID: 17205788 [PubMed - in process]
May 23rd, 2007 19:05:27
From air oscillations to music and speech: functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence for fine-tuned neural networks in audition.
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From air oscillations to music and speech: functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence for fine-tuned neural networks in audition.
J Neurosci. 2006 Aug 23;26(34):8647-52
Authors: Tervaniemi M, Szameitat AJ, Kruck S, Schröger E, Alter K, De Baene W, Friederici AD
In the auditory modality, music and speech have high informational and emotional value for human beings. However, the degree of the functional specialization of the cortical and subcortical areas in encoding music and speech sounds is not yet known. We investigated the functional specialization of the human auditory system in processing music and speech by functional magnetic resonance imaging recordings. During recordings, the subjects were presented with saxophone sounds and pseudowords /ba:ba/ with comparable acoustical content. Our data show that areas encoding music and speech sounds differ in the temporal and frontal lobes. Moreover, slight variations in sound pitch and duration activated thalamic structures differentially. However, this was the case with speech sounds only while no such effect was evidenced with music sounds. Thus, our data reveal the existence of a functional specialization of the human brain in accurately representing sound information at both cortical and subcortical areas. They indicate that not only the sound category (speech/music) but also the sound parameter (pitch/duration) can be selectively encoded.
PMID: 16928852 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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