Neurologic Music Therapy in Cognitive Rehabilitation

Thaut, Michael H.

doi:10.1525/mp.2010.27.4.281

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“…Music perception thus requires complex processing, including numerous cognitive functions, some of them being specific to music, and others being shared with other materials or functions ( Zatorre, 2005 ). Consequently, it has been proposed that music listening can convey beneficial effects on cognitive processes (e.g., Schellenberg, 2006 ; Thaut, 2010 ). For example, it has been shown that listening to music daily over a 2-month period leads to an enhancement of cognitive recovery (memory, attention, language) and mood, as well as long-term plastic changes in early sensory processing (as indexed by the MMN), after cerebral artery stroke ( Särkämö et al, 2008 ).…”

Section: Music Evokes Attention Emotion Autobiographical and Self-mentioning

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Promoting the use of personally relevant stimuli for investigating patients with disorders of consciousness

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Sensory stimuli are used to evaluate and to restore cognitive functions and consciousness in patients with a disorder of consciousness (DOC) following a severe brain injury. Although sophisticated protocols can help assessing higher order cognitive functions and awareness, one major drawback is their lack of sensitivity. The aim of the present review is to show that stimulus selection is crucial for an accurate evaluation of the state of patients with disorders of consciousness as it determines the levels of processing that the patient can have with stimulation from his/her environment. The probability to observe a behavioral response or a cerebral response is increased when her/his personal history and/or her/his personal preferences are taken into account. We show that personally relevant stimuli (i.e., with emotional, autobiographical, or self-related characteristics) are associated with clearer signs of perception than are irrelevant stimuli in patients with DOC. Among personally relevant stimuli, music appears to be a promising clinical tool as it boosts perception and cognition in patients with DOC and could also serve as a prognostic tool. We suggest that the effect of music on cerebral processes in patients might reflect the music’s capacity to act both on the external and internal neural networks supporting consciousness.

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Section: Music Evokes Attention Emotion Autobiographical and Self-mentioning

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Promoting the use of personally relevant stimuli for investigating patients with disorders of consciousness

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“…Musical training has emerged as a useful framework for the investigation of training-related plasticity in the human brain (1). Playing an instrument simultaneously receives and transmits visual, auditory, and kinaesthetic information to a specialised brain network (2), engages emotion and reward systems in the brain, which may facilitate and enhance therapeutic approaches aimed towards rehabilitation from neurological and psychiatric disorder (3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8).…”

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Effects of music production on cortical plasticity within cognitive rehabilitation of patients with mild traumatic brain injury

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Here, for the first time, we demonstrated behavioural improvements and functional brain changes after 8 weeks of playing piano on patients with mTBI having attention, memory and social interaction problems. We present evidence for a causal relationship between musical training and reorganisation of neural networks promoting enhanced cognitive performance. These results add a novel music-supported intervention within rehabilitation of patients with cognitive deficits following mTBI.

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“…Although we can also imagine arguments in favor of the reverse hypothesis-i.e., that unguided methods allow patients to be more autonomous and, hence, more cognitively engaged-the truth is that unguided patients will always have the choice not to be engaged: since they do not have to respond to external demands, they are free to do something random. The idea that compliance with external directives is key to cognitive boosting subtends modern (cognitive) music therapy [34], where, for instance, synchronization with an external rhythm drives cognitive-motor rehabilitation processes. It also applies to music training studies [35], which have shown cognitive effects from training and are generally grounded on instrumental execution and auditory discrimination rather than creation or expression.…”

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Exploring the Effects of Guided vs. Unguided Art Therapy Methods

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Castro

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Art therapy has become known by its psychosocial and affective impact, but not so much by its effects on cognitive functioning. Based on a comparison between art therapy and music-making programs, we hypothesized that guided methods-dominant in music-making programs and characterized by an emphasis on execution (play the piece, produce the visual object) rather than ideation (conceive the visual object)-could boost the cognitive effects of art-making. We also hypothesized that removing ideation from the process with guided methods could decrease psychosocial/affective benefits. In order to test our hypotheses, we compared the effects of two art therapy methods on cognitive vs. psychosocial/affective domains. We implemented a short-term longitudinal study with patients with schizophrenia showing both psychosocial/affective and cognitive deficits. The sample was divided into two groups: unguided, instructed to ideate art pieces and execute them without external guidance, vs. guided, instructed to execute predefined art pieces following externally provided guidelines. There was no evidence that guided methods boost cognitive effects, since these were equivalent across groups. However, psychosocial/affective benefits were enhanced by unguided methods, suggesting that therapeutic methods can make a difference. Our study contributes to raising important new questions concerning the therapeutic mechanisms of art therapy.Behav. Sci. 2020, 10, 65 2 of 17 unguided methods could boost cognitive effects from art therapy. Please note that we do not assume that art making is necessarily a creative process. According to Schoop's definition [7], creation is an autonomous process of shaping in which all decisions are bound to the creating person, and this is not always so in artistic practice: for instance, a musician who plays a piece by following all indications from the score is not deciding anything, and the same goes for someone who copies a drawing-provided that s/he does not add anything to the drawing intentionally. Therefore, when comparing unguided with guided methods, we were contrasting creative practices (unguided method) with not-necessarily creative ones (guided).Since its beginnings, art therapy remained focused on psychosocial-e.g., improving well-being, quality of life and communication, as well as affective goals-e.g., reducing anxiety levels and enhancing positive mood [8]. Adrian Hill , the creator of the 'art therapy' designation, developed his first therapeutic experiments when trying to fight the affective and psychosocial consequences of tuberculosis [9]. Since then, empirical studies (see Table 1) have prioritized psychosocial and affective areas across various clinical and non-clinical groups [10]: In psychotic patients, case reports [11][12][13] and quantitative studies with control groups [14-18] reported decreased anxiety [11,16,17] and depression [17], reduction in negative symptoms such as apathy or anhedonia [14,17], as well as increased self-esteem [12,14,15], sense of self [12,13], socialization...

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Neurologic Music Therapy in Cognitive Rehabilitation

Cited by 69 publications

References 44 publications

Promoting the use of personally relevant stimuli for investigating patients with disorders of consciousness

Promoting the use of personally relevant stimuli for investigating patients with disorders of consciousness

Effects of music production on cortical plasticity within cognitive rehabilitation of patients with mild traumatic brain injury

Exploring the Effects of Guided vs. Unguided Art Therapy Methods

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