
Music and the Aging Brain
Description
Key Features
- Summarizes brain structures supporting music perception and cognition
- Examines and explains music as neuroprotective in normal aging
- Addresses the association of hearing loss to dementia
- Promotes a neurological approach for research in music as therapy
- Proposes questions for future research in music and aging
Readership
Table of Contents
1. The musical brain
Stefan Koelsch and Geir Olve SkeiePart 1 Effects of Aging on Music Processing
2. Processing of musical pitch, time, and emotion in older adults
Andrea R. Halpern3. Age-related hearing loss
Margaret Kathleen Pichora-FullerPart 2 Disorders of Musical Perception and Memory
4. Disorders of music processing in dementia
Elia Benhamou and Jason D. Warren5. Stroke and acquired amusia
Aleksi J. Sihvonen and Teppo Sarkamo6. “Curious” cases of preservation of music compositional ability in the presence of organic brain disease: historical examples
Lola L. Cuddy and Jacalyn M. DuffinPart 3 The Power of Music as Neuroprotection in Normal Aging
7. Theories of cognitive aging: a look at potential benefits of music training on the aging brain
T.M. Vanessa Chan and Claude Alain8. Training-induced cognitive and neural changes in musicians: implications for health aging
Brenda Hanna-Pladdy and Miriam Menken9. Singing and choirs
Annabel J. Cohen10. Effects on cognition of physical activity with or without music and of dance
David Predovan and Louis Bherer11. Toward music-based auditory rehabilitation for older adults
Benjamin Rich Zendel and Sarah SauvePart 4 The Power of Music in Rehabilitation and Care in Disorderd Aging
12. Benefits and limits of musical interventions in pathological aging
Herve Platel and Mathilde Groussard13. Why do music-based interventions benefit persons with neurodegenerative disease?
Lise Hobeika and Severine Samson14. Neurorehabilitation in aging through neurologic music therapy
Michael Thaut and Yuko Koshimori15. The use of rhythm in rehabilitation for patients with movement disorders
Simone Dalla Bella16. The impact of music interventions on motor rehabilitation following stroke in elderly
Eckart Altenmuller and Clara E. JamesAfterword: concluding thoughts and future direction
Product details
- No. of pages: 474
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: May 28, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128174227
- eBook ISBN: 9780128174234