The Benefits of Music to Restore Memory Due to Brain Injury
The Benefits of Music to Restore Memory Due to Brain Injury: Almost everyone would like the music because music can create a mood for the better and can make someone listen to become more vibrant. However, other than that there are still many benefits gained from music because a study found that music can bring back memories due to injury.
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| The Benefits of Music to Restore Memory Due to Brain Injury |
A study that is packaged in a book called Neuropsychological Rehabilitation revealed that a person who suffered a severe brain injury turned out to be experiencing MEAMS or music evokes autobiographical memories, like those who are not injured. Because of their injury would normally be impaired verbal and visual memory but they can still carry a flashback with the help of music. From the results it can be concluded that patients who have memory problems due to brain injury turned out to be healed by listening to music.
Experts have conducted the study on five patients who had trouble when required to recall his personal life. One of these patients can not even remember most of his life after a motorcycle accident and get seriously injured. While other patients who experienced a lack of oxygen after the attempted suicide and permanent brain damage.
Then, these experts play the 50 songs pop hits from 1961 to the year 2010 were adjusted for patient age range. While still playing music they were asked to fill out questionnaires conducted to measure the familiarity of the songs on patients with a scale of 1 to 5. They were then given some question whether the song can evoke good or bad memory and they were also asked to describe how they can opt back in therein.
The researchers revealed that when listening to pop music, the patients will issue a strong emotional reaction and will associate the song to a memory for music can provide strong stimulation to the brain so that it can bring negative and positive emotions.
From these results we can conclude that music can help patients with neurological problems, including Alzheimer's patients. Besides being able to restore memory due to injury, the music can also help patients who suffer from dementia and Alzheimer's recall memories with more specific, deeper and faster.
