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 A new study has revealed that music can be come to a great help while treating people suffering from Alzheimer`s patients, a type of dementia.
An international team has found that people suffering from Alzheimer`s can slow the relentless course of the disease by tuning into their favourite songs.
The researchers suggested that listening to certain tunes from one`s past evokes powerful and vivid memories that appear to be immune from the condition. Moreover, by making a `soundtrack of someone`s life` before their mind is damaged and playing it back to them `could help form a resistance to the disease`.
Petr Janata of California University, who led the team of researchers said, "Providing patients with MP3 players and customised playlists could prove to be a quality-of-life improvement strategy that would be both effective and economical. What seems to happen that a piece of familiar music serves as a soundtrack for a mental movie that starts playing in our head."
Janata added, "It calls back memories of a particular person or place, and you might all of a sudden see that person`s face in your mind`s eye. Now, we can see the association between those two things the music and the memories."
Prof Janata analysed the brain activity of 13 students as they listened to 30 favourite songs. They found that the section of the brain associated with music is also associated with human`s most vivid memories and this region seemed to serve as a hub that links familiar music, memories and emotion.
Actually, this pre-frontal cortex, which is just behind the forehead, seems to be the most immune from the effects of Alzheimer`s disease, the study revealed.
Janata added, "Because memory for autobiographically important music seems to be spared in people with Alzheimer`s disease, one of the long-term goals is to use this research to help develop music-based therapy for people with the disease."
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Posted On : 25 Feb 09
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