This week's article features a moving video about a man who was able recover his ability to speak after snowboarding accident through music therapy and training. Music Therapy Helps Man Regain Voice After Snowboarding Accident ...
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This week's article is focused on how music therapy can help people with Alzheimer's to improve their cognition. 0308 Särkämö T et al. carried out a clinical research which showed music listening could promote neurons recovery and cognitive reservation during the early post-stroke stage. Music therapy is a...
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This week's article focuses on music therapy as a whole, and includes discussion on how it helped representative Gabrielle Giffords recover from head trauma, as well as more information from board certified music therapists such as Connie Tomaino and Oliver Sacks. "And what some of the...
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This week's article focuses on how music therapy can help people work through neurological difficulties such as ADHD. "Music is rhythm, rhythm is structure, and structure is soothing to an ADHD brain struggling to regulate itself to stay on a linear path." Music Therapy: Sound Medicine for...
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This week's article is a fantastic overview of music therapy and it's history, with a particular focus on how it has been used to treat depression. If you want to know more about music therapy, this article gives a great overview! "From the earliest days of civilization,...
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This week we are introducing you to Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy and how it has helped people with autism. Jules Alexander Este, a 24-year-old who’s been a client of NYU’s Nordoff Robbins Center for 15 years, described how he walks out of each therapy session a 'semi-new me.'...
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This week we looked at how music can help people get better and how it influences the brain. “Music Therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved...
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One of the missions of Music Blooms Music Therapy, LLC has been promoting and clarifying the music therapy profession throughout the state of Vermont. One issue that came up for our practice, following the tremendous interest in the movie Music Alive, was clarifying the difference between...
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This week we looked at how music therapy can help those on the autism spectrum. Bruscia (1991) defines music therapy as "an interpersonal process in which the therapist uses music and all of its facets—physical, emotional, mental, social, aesthetic, and spiritual—to help clients improve, restore or...
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This week is about how music therapy had been able to help Alzheimer's Patients with orientating themselves in the present. Former President of the American Association for Music Therapy, Connie Tomaino, discusses the neuroscience behind music therapy and gives some examples of how it has helped...
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