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Music Therapy & Neuroplasticity

This article was forwarded to Jen with enthusiasm by her scientist husband! 🙂

 

Did you know that Music Therapy actually has the ability to physically change your brain?

 

In “Exploring the Mechanisms of Music Therapy,” MT-BC Elizabeth Stegemöller reaches out and talks about the science behind the neuroplasticity in the brain in relation to Music Therapy. She states that “…music therapists may be eliciting simultaneous firing of neurons in brain areas involved in the control of those behaviors, strengthening neuronal connectivity and leading to faster and more-permanent changes in their patients.”

 

Thus, Music Therapists are not simply providing a pleasant environment, they are interlacing the pleasurable feelings from it with non-musical goals (walking, verbalizing, etc.) and strengthening those neural connections in the brain! Talk about science!

 

Exploring the Mechanisms of Music Therapy