Music therapy and dementia

Dementia, characterized by a serious deterioration in the brainpower, affective disorders and personality changes, caused by a number of different reasons, such as loss of neurons in the brain as a result of head injury, metabolic, or even because of the volume in the brain.

The human brain has two hemispheres – the hemisphere to the left and right hemispheres. A large part of the brain usually damaged the patients suffering from dementia. While the language skills of people solely by the left hemisphere of the brain affected, the music is in many different parts of the brain, and not just a particular part of the brain, various elements of music such as pitch, rhythm and melody all processed differently in different parts of the human brain. It is therefore able to maintain a healthy remaining parts of the brain of the patient.

The music is accepted and processed by stem cells from different brain and therefore seriously debilitating people can respond to music. Music can be perceived and therefore to serve as a means of communication for people suffering from dementia, whose skills or learning seriously damaged. When all other means of communication has no effect, music, non-verbal stimulus for quality, tends to penetrate the mind of the patient and allows a certain amount of social, emotional or cognitive connection. Symptoms such as agitation and confusion among those with dementia can also be enchanted by relaxing and soothing effects of music.

The degree of confidentiality, the extent of the needs of the patient for particular music and memories associated with the music or the importance of music to people are some of the factors affecting the scope of positive or beneficial effects of music therapy. Although known music can lead to positive reactions as tapping the fingers and feet the melody of the rhythmic movement of Drone organs with music or expression to change the appearance, failed to register first foreign music in the brain. Therefore, we find the positive effects of the patient, it may not play when unknown music in music therapy sessions. The known institutions can also help the patients more concern space and happy and feel reassured.

The music therapist must be very careful, height and volume of the music used for the treatment, because these factors have a significant impact on the patient. While the great height and high volume fear and pressure can cause, is the creation, the low height of the season.