Neurologic Music Therapy
Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) has fostered recovery from complications in patients suffering from a wide variety of neurologic diseases. Based upon neuroscience research, neurologic music therapy provides specific, individualized, and standardised interventions for those affected by neurologic injury or disease. NMT works to improve cognitive, sensory, and motor dysfunctions due to neurologic disease of the human nervous system.Combining music and virtual reality with standard rehabilitation therapies can improve patient compliance and make therapy more enjoyable. Listening to music can reduce epileptic form discharges and enhances brain plasticity. Music produces variations in brain anatomy between musicians and non-musicians. Music therapy is an inexpensive intervention to help post-stroke patients to recover faster and more efficiently if applied soon after the event
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