At the very start there was lots of fidgeting and chattery noise. Several of the autistic students had their hands over their ears. Then shortly into the performance, I observed an audience of 3 year olds completely still and entranced. The autistic students with hands over ears suddenly released their hands. When I left the room, I too felt such serenity.
Music is definitely healing. I use to play my drum to accompany healing ceremonies where drumming have an important role….. Thank you. I am blessed to play tenor sax in the Harvard Summer Pops Band despite 14 operations for jaw cancer. I have long held the belief that music heals. I speculate the new notes created by blending of accapella voice captures a part of my brain where pain may reside.. Very glad to see Harvard affiliated confirmation.. I believe we have similar inclinations. I am emotionally transported by Doo Wop.
I also have a lot of satisfaction and relaxation from listening to piano and harp. Richard Clayderman is a favorite piano player with a deft key touch. Bronn Journey is a favored harpist and my all time favorite song is Mull of Kintyre but it must be the version by Franck Pourcel.
Music heals me every day of listening to music, music has helped me get through my rough days from the time of my husbands suicide, and also helped me through my breast cancer. Karren McCallum. They told her that music reduced the pain of children undergoing various painful surgery. They even had a volunteer teaching music to the kids!
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Many open questions remain but the work is very encouraging. It has also been suggested that music may help treat epilepsy — a brain disorder characterized by the occurrence of seizures. Reported by MNT in August, a study found the brains of patients with epilepsy show different responses to music than the brains of those without the condition. These results, Charyton said, could lead to a novel treatment strategy for epilepsy. Based on the substantial evidence that music offers numerous health benefits, many experts are calling for greater utilization of music therapy within health care settings.
In addition, Else believes that music therapy could offer an alternative treatment option for some conditions — such as tension headaches. Based on the research to date, there is certainly evidence that we have much more than just an emotional connection with music.
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The systematic fulfilment and violation of expectations are thought to underlie emotion and meaning in music. Music is an ideal catalyst for inducing physiological changes in heart-brain studies because it can be dissected systematically into features based on note content and the way this content is communicated in performance.
Evidence suggests that these musical attributes trigger brain responses at a basic level. The activation patterns were consistent enough for machines to infer the music the listener heard or its genre simply from their fMRI scans.
Music features have also been linked to physiological responses. In a study co-authored by physicians Luciano Bernardi and Peter Sleight, loudness increases in vocal and orchestral music produced vascular constriction and blood pressure increases proportionate to these crescendos.
Such unconscious physiological responses are thought to be the progenitors of music-induced emotions. Music also has a communal impact on human physiology. People listening to the same music tend to synchronize not only their movements, but also their breathing and heart rhythms.
Some of this heartbeat coherence is due to breathing together, but partial coherence linear relationships remained higher between the heartbeats of people vocalizing long notes together, over the baseline or breathing together, even after removing the effect of respiration.
For cardiac patients, music-based interventions can also modulate cerebral blood flow, reduce pre-operative anxiety and post-operative stress, improve surgery outcomes, and lower cortisol levels. Music interventions are found to significantly affect heartrate and blood pressure in coronary heart disease patients. Listening to relaxing music not only reduced heart and respiration rates but also oxygen demand of the heart in patients who have had a heart attack.
Technological advances in biofeedback sensors means that physiological parameters like heartbeats and heart rate variability can be harnessed to guide music interventions in cardiac therapy. This is an opinion and analysis article; the views expressed by the author or authors are not necessarily those of Scientific American.
This article has been developed from an exploratory multidisciplinary seminar on Music and the Heart at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University involving physicians, neuroscientists and musicians with a specific interest in music and its effects on human physiology.
Any opinions, findings and conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author s , and do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies.
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