Neurologic Music Therapy in Stroke Rehabilitation

Thaut, Michael H.; McIntosh, Gerald C.

doi:10.1007/s40141-014-0049-y

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“…A systematic review of the use of music therapy in ABI populations found that "rhythmic auditory stimulation" may be beneficial for improving gait in stroke patients, but there were insufficient data to examine the effect of music therapy on other outcomes such as mood or cognition (Bradt, Magee, Dileo, Wheeler, & McGilloway, 2010). Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) offers techniques for cognitive rehabilitation (see Thaut, 2010), but there is only one published "exploratory" study in this area to date which found beneficial effects of a single NMT session on executive functions (although only one task, the Trail Making Test B, was used) in a small sample of TBI patients (Thaut et al, 2009). There have been several recent studies of the beneficial use of music in rehabilitation of neglect (for example Tsai et al, 2013) and "melodic intonation therapy" for non-fluent aphasia after stroke (Schlaug, Norton, Marchina, Zipse, & Wan, 2010), but few studies of the use of music in cognitive rehabilitation of patients with TBI or anoxic brain injury.…”

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Music evoked autobiographical memory after severe acquired brain injury: Preliminary findings from a case series

Baird

Samson

2013

Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

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Music evoked autobiographical memories (MEAMs) have been characterised in the healthy population, but not, to date, in patients with acquired brain injury (ABI). Our aim was to investigate music compared with verbal evoked autobiographical memories. Five patients with severe ABI and matched controls completed the experimental music (MEAM) task (a written questionnaire) while listening to 50 "Number 1 Songs of the Year" (from 1960 to 2010). Patients also completed the Autobiographical Memory Interview (AMI) and a standard neuropsychological assessment. With the exception of Case 5, who reported no MEAMs and no autobiographical incidents on the AMI and who also had impaired pitch perception, the range of frequency and type of MEAMs in patients was broadly in keeping with their matched controls. The relative preservation of MEAMs in four cases was particularly noteworthy given their impaired verbal and/or visual anterograde memory, and in three cases, autobiographical memory impairment. The majority of MEAMs in both cases and matched controls were of a person/people or a period of life. In three patients music was more efficient at evoking autobiographical memories than the AMI verbal prompts. This is the first study of MEAMs after ABI. The findings suggest that music is an effective stimulus for eliciting autobiographical memories, and may be beneficial in the rehabilitation of autobiographical amnesia, but only in patients without a fundamental deficit in autobiographical recall memory and intact pitch perception.

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Music evoked autobiographical memory after severe acquired brain injury: Preliminary findings from a case series

Baird

Samson

2013

Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

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“…A growing body of research has examined structural components of music (especially rhythm) to facilitate neuromuscular efficiency in persons with neurological disorders (Gfeller, 2008; Thaut, 2005) or to enhance motor development in children (Gfeller, 2008; Thaut, Thaut, & LaGasse, 2008). Music can also represent movements in a symbolic fashion (Thaut, et al, 2008) with the rates and melodic patterns implying images associated with movement (e.g., crawling, climbing) that can be used in creative or improvisational movement.…”

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“…Music can also represent movements in a symbolic fashion (Thaut, et al, 2008) with the rates and melodic patterns implying images associated with movement (e.g., crawling, climbing) that can be used in creative or improvisational movement. However, to date, systematic study of this aspect of musical communication is limited (Heaton Allen, Williams, Cummins, & Happe, 2008).…”

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Do Communication Disorders Extend to Musical Messages? An Answer from Children with Hearing Loss or Autism Spectrum Disorders

Whipple¹,

Gfeller²,

Driscoll³

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Journal of Music Therapy

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Background Effective musical communication requires conveyance of the intended message in a manner perceptible to the receiver. Communication disorders that impair transmitting or decoding of structural features of music (e.g., pitch, timbre) and/or symbolic representation may result in atypical musical communication, which can have a negative impact on music therapy interventions. Objective This study compared recognition of symbolic representation of emotions or movements in music by two groups of children with different communicative characteristics: severe to profound hearing loss (using cochlear implants [CI]) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Their responses were compared to those of children with typical-development and normal hearing (TD-NH). Accuracy was examined as a function of communicative status, emotional or movement category, and individual characteristics. Methods Participants listened to recorded musical excerpts conveying emotions or movements and matched them with labels. Measures relevant to auditory and/or language function were also gathered. Results There was no significant difference between the ASD and TD-NH groups in identification of musical emotions or movements. However, the CI group was significantly less accurate than the other two groups in identification of both emotions and movements. Mixed effects logistic regression revealed different patterns of accuracy for specific emotions as a function of group. Conclusion Conveyance of emotions or movements through music may be decoded differently by persons with different types of communication disorders. Because music is the primary therapeutic tool in music therapy sessions, clinicians should consider these differential abilities when selecting music for clinical interventions focusing on emotions or movement.

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“…This has been driven by advances in the neuroscience of music (Thaut, 2012). Music shares neural networks with memory, language, attention, perception, and motor control.…”

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Neuropsychological rehabilitation: State of the science

Wilson¹

2013

South African Journal of Psychology

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Neuropsychological rehabilitation is concerned with the amelioration of cognitive, emotional, psychosocial, and behavioural deficits caused by an insult to the brain. Major changes in the field have occurred over the past decade or so. In 2011, Wilson published an article titled 'Cutting edge developments in neuropsychological rehabilitation and possible future directions', in which 10 of the most important changes in neuropsychological rehabilitation over the previous 5 years were described. This article is an update of those changes: some of the topics in the 2011 article have been omitted, others added, and the order of importance has been changed. For the most part, the developments described relate to the rehabilitation of adults with non-progressive brain injury, the exceptions being a development for people with dementia and another relates to children. Topics considered are new assessment procedures, new treatment strategies for cognitive and emotional problems, recognition of the need to find new ways to evaluate the efficacy of rehabilitation, and evidence for the effectiveness of comprehensive-holistic rehabilitation.

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Neurologic Music Therapy in Stroke Rehabilitation

Cited by 58 publications

References 60 publications

Music evoked autobiographical memory after severe acquired brain injury: Preliminary findings from a case series

Music evoked autobiographical memory after severe acquired brain injury: Preliminary findings from a case series

Do Communication Disorders Extend to Musical Messages? An Answer from Children with Hearing Loss or Autism Spectrum Disorders

Neuropsychological rehabilitation: State of the science

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