Making music after stroke: using musical activities to enhance arm function

Wijck, Frederike van; Knox, Don; Dodds, Colin; Cassidy, Gianna; Alexander, Gillian; MacDonald, Raymond

doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06403.x

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“…Besides theoretical implications, the outcome of the present study, as well as its low-cost motion capture devices, may be used in clinical settings where sounds and music are used to co-ordinate movement. For instance, music-based movement therapy has been found to be effective in treating Parkinson's disease (Rochester et al, 2010; De Dreu et al, 2012), and therapeutic approaches to stroke may benefit from musical activities, as shown in a study using the Wii™ Remote Controller to develop new forms of interventions (Van Wijck et al, 2012). …”

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Musicians are more consistent: Gestural cross-modal mappings of pitch, loudness and tempo in real-time

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Cross-modal mappings of auditory stimuli reveal valuable insights into how humans make sense of sound and music. Whereas researchers have investigated cross-modal mappings of sound features varied in isolation within paradigms such as speeded classification and forced-choice matching tasks, investigations of representations of concurrently varied sound features (e.g., pitch, loudness and tempo) with overt gestures—accounting for the intrinsic link between movement and sound—are scant. To explore the role of bodily gestures in cross-modal mappings of auditory stimuli we asked 64 musically trained and untrained participants to represent pure tones—continually sounding and concurrently varied in pitch, loudness and tempo—with gestures while the sound stimuli were played. We hypothesized musical training to lead to more consistent mappings between pitch and height, loudness and distance/height, and tempo and speed of hand movement and muscular energy. Our results corroborate previously reported pitch vs. height (higher pitch leading to higher elevation in space) and tempo vs. speed (increasing tempo leading to increasing speed of hand movement) associations, but also reveal novel findings pertaining to musical training which influenced consistency of pitch mappings, annulling a commonly observed bias for convex (i.e., rising–falling) pitch contours. Moreover, we reveal effects of interactions between musical parameters on cross-modal mappings (e.g., pitch and loudness on speed of hand movement), highlighting the importance of studying auditory stimuli concurrently varied in different musical parameters. Results are discussed in light of cross-modal cognition, with particular emphasis on studies within (embodied) music cognition. Implications for theoretical refinements and potential clinical applications are provided.

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“…Training schemes may pay specific attention to being rewarding and motivational. Promising approaches are music therapy [57] and virtual reality training [45] or rehabilitation gaming [5] . Further research is necessary to elucidate the neuroscience and potential clinical applications behind motivationenhancing strategies as an add-on to movement training.…”

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“…This requires time and training of sufficient intensity [25,51,55,62] . If performed intensely, most treatments that involve active training provide similar benefits across groups [26,50,54,57] . However, the response of individual patients varies largely.…”

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How to gain evidence in neurorehabilitation: a personal view

Luft

2012

Biomedizinische Technik/Biomedical Engineering

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Abstract:Neurorehabilitation is an emerging field driven by developments in neuroscience and biomedical engineering. Most patients that require neurorehabilitation have had a stroke, but other diseases of the brain, spinal cord, or nerves can also be alleviated. Modern therapies in neurorehabilitation focus on reducing impairment and improving function in daily life. As compared with acute care medicine, the clinical evidence for most neurorehabilitative treatments (modern or conventional) is sparse. Clinical trials support constraint-induced movement therapy for the arm and aerobic treadmill training for walking, both high-intensity interventions requiring therapist time (i.e., cost) and patient motivation. Promising approaches for the future include robotic training, telerehabilitation at the patient ' s home, and supportive therapies that promote motivation and compliance. It is argued that a better understanding of the neuroscience of recovery together with results from small-scale and well-focused clinical experiments are necessary to design optimal interventions for specific target groups of patients.

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“…These available approaches are ready to be modified from a MNS based perspective for further studies. Music therapy has already been employed to treat some disorders discussed above, such as aphasia [67], stroke [68,69]. It is acknowledged that the psychosomatic effects of music also contributed to the beneficial aspects of music therapy [70,71]; whether MNS activation also mediates such effects are to be examined.…”

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The mirror neuron system in post-stroke rehabilitation

Carvalho¹,

Teixeira²,

Lucas³

et al. 2013

Int Arch Med

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Different treatments for stroke patients have been proposed; among them the mirror therapy and motion imagery lead to functional recovery by providing a cortical reorganization. Up today the basic concepts of the current literature on mirror neurons and the major findings regarding the use of mirror therapy and motor imagery as potential tools to promote reorganization and functional recovery in post-stroke patients. Bibliographic research was conducted based on publications over the past thirteen years written in English in the databases Scielo, Pubmed/MEDLINE, ISI Web of Knowledge. The studies showed how the interaction among vision, proprioception and motor commands promotes the recruitment of mirror neurons, thus providing cortical reorganization and functional recovery of post-stroke patients. We conclude that the experimental advances on Mirror Neurons will bring new rational therapeutic approaches to post-stroke rehabilitation.

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Making music after stroke: using musical activities to enhance arm function

Cited by 33 publications

References 42 publications

Musicians are more consistent: Gestural cross-modal mappings of pitch, loudness and tempo in real-time

Musicians are more consistent: Gestural cross-modal mappings of pitch, loudness and tempo in real-time

How to gain evidence in neurorehabilitation: a personal view

The mirror neuron system in post-stroke rehabilitation

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