UK s Alaine E. Reschke-Hernández talks about her research exploring the impact of music on Alzheimer s patients.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 26, 2021) Newly published research has found familiar music can elicit an extended emotional response in patients with Alzheimer’s-type dementia. The findings from this potential new approach were featured in issue three of volume 78 of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Building on the belief that music has emotional and behavioral benefits, researchers under the leadership of University of Kentucky School of Music’s Alaine E. Reschke-Hernández, assistant professor of music therapy, set out to explore if those emotions provoked by music remain without declarative memory (conscious recollection of the music). In the article, “Hooked on a Feeling: Influence of Brief Exposure to Familiar Music on Feelings of Emotion in Individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease,” the team of researchers from UK, Missouri University of Science and Technolo
As part of an NIH-funded experiment, soprano Renée Fleming underwent a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan of her brain in 2017. The scan highlights areas of increased signal (commonly interpreted as increased brain activity) when Fleming imagined singing while inside the fMRI scanner. Learning more about music’s interactions with the brain could lead to new and better medical therapies. Image credit: National Institutes of Health/David Jangraw.
Playing the Brain
In the last 15 years, as labs worldwide have studied how the brain processes music, some neurologists and cognitive neuroscientists started to focus on the potential of music to treat neurological disorders. As these neuroscientists entered a field once dominated by music therapists, newer trials have become more rigorously designed, Särkämö says. But these studies are “still a work in progress in many cases,” he notes, because trials are still too few and too small to unequivocally demonstrate the
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