MUSIC 2MT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Evidence-Based Practice, Dementia, Long-Term Care
31 Jul 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Use interventions that can be applied regardless of diagnosis. What it means to us, how it relates to others. The specifics of music is the foundation of neurologic music therapy. Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable . The brain that engages in music is changed by music . Structures of our brain changes when engaged with music. Music is being stored (elements) into the brain. There is still areas that can be drawn from even if an individual suffers from damage in areas of the brain. Functional perception of all properties of music to retain brain and behaviour function. Cues used to facilitate such actions (such as rhythm) Sensorimotor skills - timp, ras: therapeutic instrumental music performance. Range of motion and endurance, strengthening upper body muscles. Hitting different drums, placed around him in different spots (on ground/in air) Continuing to play and provide rhythm so patient can stay engaged: rhythmic auditory stimulation.
