Have a bad day and music can lift your spirits. Have a brain injury and music can actually rehabilitate, research increasingly shows.
Therapists say music has a broad ability to help Alzheimer's patients remember, improve the motor skills of those with Parkinson's and even help children with Attention Deficit Disorder.
Two years ago, a stroke left 69-year-old Rosemary Page unable to say much more than single syllables. Speech therapy alone didn't help much, but the addition of music has helped Rosemary learn to construct simple sentences.
Music works, therapists say, by bypassing the brain’s damaged language centers and creating new pathways to the parts of the brain that process music.
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