Health Sciences 2711A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cerebral Cortex, Poorhouse, Dementia
27 Jun 2018
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Alive Inside: A story of Music and Memory
- music taking you back in time to your memories
school days
music had extremely good increase at bringing back memory
elders with dementia music they liked
bringing back fond memories
music connects people with their lives
what will people recognize and enjoy - gospel,
Henry
full assistance due to dementia 10 years in a nursing home
always into music singing and dancing
physiological stimulus but also an emotional stimulus
he’s awaken by music
kant quickening art
how awake was he?
remembers liking music, even his favourite song
remembers liking bikes,
reconnected with his identity through the power of music
what happened
connected with his self,
struggling with own thoughts and confusion
not thinking of anything else, not struggling
5 million ppl in america with dementia
10 million ppl care for them
1 million people in nursing homes losing their lives
music is a backdoor into the mind
response to music is not affected that much
music has more ability to activate parts of the brain than any other stimulus
music controls emotions last part of brain to be touched by alzhimers
awakening pathways there;s a way to reach someone that is otherwise unreachable
more money in drugs than a personal music system
personal music doesn’t count as a medical intervention
health care system imagines humans to be complicated
we have medicines hat adjust the dials
haven’t done anything medically speaking to touch heart and soul
stress is communication, giving sedation drugs will not allow them to communicate
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