Neurologic Music Therapy to Facilitate Recovery from Complications of Neurologic Diseases

Neurobiological Aspects of Neurologic Music Therapy

Making music is a powerful way of engaging multisensory and motor networks, inducing changes within these networks and linking together distant brain regions. These multimodal effects of music making together with music’s ability to tap into the emotion and reward system in the brain can be used to facilitate therapy and rehabilitation of neurological disorders. In this article, we review short...

The Neurobiological Foundation of Neurologic Music Therapy

Neurologic music therapy (NMT) is a specific methodology of music therapy that is based on neuroscience models of music perception and production. Codified NMT techniques are developed out of basic and applied research on the unique effects of music on the brain. The distributed nature of neuronal networks for music processing in the brain, combined with the precise temporal processing ability ...

Neurologic complications of cancer and cancer therapy.

When neurologic complications occur as a result of systemic cancer and cancer treatment, they can be more disabling for patients than their primary cancer and significantly impair functioning in varied domains. However, recognizing neurologic signs and symptoms as complications of cancer and its treatment can pose a challenge for healthcare providers. Oncology nurses must develop a high index o...

Neurologic Music Therapy Techniques and Definitions

Neurologic Music Therapy in Stroke Rehabilitation

Based on insights from brain research in music, neurologic music therapy (NMT) has been established as a new model for music in therapy and medicine. Standardized clinical interventions are based on clusters of research evidence and established learning principles in motor, speech/language, and cognitive training. The research support for NMT in stroke rehabilitation has been growing rapidly ov...