Music and Medicine: Music Therapy for Infants
Dr. Joanne Loewy demonstrates the use of the Gato box, which can replicate the sound of the mother's heartbeat, for music therapy administered to infants.
Dr. Joanne Loewy demonstrates the use of the Gato box, which can replicate the sound of the mother's heartbeat, for music therapy administered to infants.
At Beth Israel hospital in New York, doctors are experimenting with using the music of the flute to measure the impact of music therapy on patients with chronic lung disease.
Concetta Tomaino explains how music therapy can have exciting results for patients with neurological conditions because of the enriched sensory stimulus that it allows.
Oliver Sacks explains his first experience as a physician where he saw music transform Parkinson's patients into state where they could move and converse again.
Music therapist Concetta M. Tomaino says music seems to able to reach us when movement, memory, speech, and emotion have to all appearances been destroyed by injury or disease.
In part three of Daniel Levitin's interview, learn about the medical implications of the research investigating the relationships between cognition and music.
Here you can find the media resources to accompany The Music Instinct Lesson Plan 2: We've Got Rythm.
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