I. Introduction A. If you listen to music‚ raise your hand. B. We often listen to music as a daily activity. List examples of when we listen to music such as when working out‚ bored‚ doing work‚ sad‚ stressed‚ etc. C. What most people don’t know is that music can and is used for healing II. Body A. Music Therapy is a health profession were music is used to address physical‚ emotional‚ cognitive‚ and social needs of individuals. B. After assessing the strengths and needs of a client‚ a qualified
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History of Gerstmann’s Syndrome Gerstmann’s syndrome is a cognitive impairment that is caused by damage to the left parietal lobe in the region of the angular gyrus. Additionally‚ it can occur as a result of a stroke or tumor. According to the National Institute of Health‚ Gerstmann’s syndrome is named after famed neuropsychiatrist Josef Gerstmann (2008). It affects both men and women in equal numbers (NORD.org‚ 2014). It is characterized by four primary symptoms: a writing disability (agraphia or
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Hippocampus The area of the brain associated with memory‚ learning and emotional response is the hippocampus‚ which is part of the limbic system. It is composed of a pair of seahorse shaped structures in the medial temporal lobe of the brain‚ one in each of the left and right lobes. It has three distinct regions: dorsal‚ ventral and intermediate. The dorsal hippocampus serves verbal and spatial memory as well as conceptual learning and assigning sensory stimuli to memories. It contains more place
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Still Alice is the story about a fifty-year-old‚ Harvard psychology professor who is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. We meet Alice right before she is diagnosed‚ when she is still traveling for conferences and teaching at Harvard. After experiencing various memory lapses and spatial disorientations‚ Alice finally goes to the doctor and through a series of tests; she is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Alice struggles with this truth for a while before she finally tells her
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Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible neurodegenerative disease that causes deterioration of cognitive and behavioral functions in individuals usually over the age of 60. While there is no cure for this disease‚ there is a wide range of treatments and care. Therefore‚ doctors and caregivers are constantly working on uncovering the best treatment for this disease. This study focuses on the effects of response-related music stimulation versus general music stimulation on positive participation in
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The Central Nervous System is composed of the brain and the spinal cord and one of it’s primary functions is to send out messsages to the rest of the body. One chronic illness that affects the Central Nervous System is Multiple Sclerosis. Roughly 2 million people througout the world have been faced with this disease‚ and “in the United States‚ it is estimated that 450‚000 people are affected‚ with 10‚000 new cases per year” (Goodman & Fuller 772). This disabiling condition has been found more prevelant
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5 Effective Ways to Connect to a Person With Alzheimer’s Disease Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive illness of the brain. It is common to elderly aged 60 years old and above. This affects a person’s ability to remember things and think clearly‚ thus those people with AD will eventually become forgetful and easily confounded. They may have a difficult time concentrating and may behave in unusual ways. These problems you encounter will even get worse as the illness gets worse‚ thus it is imperative
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CU238P Dementia Awareness 1.1 Explain what is meant by the term ‘dementia’. The term dementia is used to describe an illness that affects the memory. Patients can suffer from forgetfulness‚ loss of memory and the inability to remember new information. As well as being unable to speak and be understood by others and be unable to carry out general tasks. Patients can also suffer from mood changes and all reasoning. This all has an effect on daily routines and people become unable to look after
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Dementia is a progressive brain impairment that interferers with memory and basic living functions. According to the scholarly journal‚ “Dementias”‚ dementia affects about 46 million people worldwide. Approximately 7.7 million new cases of dementia form every year. This occurs in both men and women over the age of sixty. Dementia affects patient memory‚ and impairs abstract thoughts and functions such as aphasia and apraxia. Along with the again process‚ dementia can be caused by
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Frontotemporal dementia is a group of disorders caused by progressive cell degeneration in the brain’s frontal lobes or its temporal lobes. The cell damage caused by frontotemporal dementia leads to tissue shrinkage and reduced function in the brain’s frontal and temporal lobes‚ which control planning and judgment; emotions‚ speaking and understanding speech and certain types of movement. In those younger than age 65‚ FTD may account for up to 20 to 50 percent of dementia cases. People usually develop
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