Last Thursday, in a New York Times op-ed, neurologist and best-selling author Oliver Sacks revealed that he has been battling cancer in various forms for the past nine years and that it has now metastasized in his liver. “This form of cancer cannot be halted,” he writes. But rather than resigning to his disease and…
Melody Processing Characterizes Functional Neuroanatomy in the Aging Brain Click here to view original web page at www.frontiersin.org 1Dementia Research Centre, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom 2Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom 3Department…
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A new Finnish research team have found that practising an instrument can make you a better communicator by altering the brain. Sound, and by extension music, is a primal form of communication. We can express emotion, tell stories, inspire empathy, trust and compassion through the sounds we make, and […] Click here to view original…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of music as a unitary–transformative means of altering the perception of chronic pain among women with rheumatoid arthritis within the context of Newman’s model of health as expanding consciousness. In this repeated measures investigation, 30 women diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis for a minimum of 6…
Some music inspires you to move your feet, some inspires you to get out there and change the world. In any case, and to move hurriedly on to the point of this article, it’s fair to say that music moves people in special ways. If you’re especially into a piece of music, your brain does…
If you want to firm up your body, head to the gym. If you want to exercise your brain, listen to music. “There are few things that stimulate the brain the way music does,” says one Johns Hopkins otolaryngologist. “If you want to keep your brain engaged throughout the […] Click here to view original…
The task of bathing uncooperative patients with middle to late dementia constantly challenges caregivers who must balance the important ethical concerns of maintaining patient autonomy/dignity while also meeting basic physical needs. The agitation associated with bathing is expressed in a multitude of behaviors ranging from physical and verbal combativeness to avoidance and hiding. The purpose…
Your brain uses the left side to make sense of lyrics and the right side for a song’s melody. A song fuses words and music. Yet the human brain can instantly separate a song’s lyrics from its melody. And now scientists think they know how this happens. A team […] Click here to view original…
Some 43 per cent of people aged between 20 and 49 in Scotland aren’t taking the necessary steps to protect themselves against dementia, new research has suggested. Carried out by Brain Health Scotland, the study found that 23 per cent of those asked were unable to identify any of the protective steps necessary to keep…
