The Use of Music Therapy as a Clinical Intervention for Physiologic Functional Adaptation

Journal of Scientific Exploration

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 687-703

  Berger, Dorita S ^a   Schneck, Daniel J ^b  

^a Music Therapy Clinic   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical engineering; Biomusical engineering; Brain; Fear responses; Functional adaptation; Homeostasis; Music; Music therapy; Physiologic function

Indexed keywords

BIOMUSICAL ENGINEERING; FEAR RESPONSES; FUNCTIONAL ADAPTATION; HOMEOSTASIS; MUSIC THERAPY;

ACOUSTICS; AUDITION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAIN; CASCADE CONTROL SYSTEMS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIAGNOSIS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; FUNCTIONAL NEURAL STIMULATION; NEUROLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SENSORY FEEDBACK; VISION;

PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 0346707422     PISSN: 08923310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. LeDoux, J. (1998). The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life. New York: Touchstone Book/Simon & Schuster.
2. LeDoux, J. (2002). Synoptic Self: How Our Brains become Who We Are. New York: Penguin Putnam, Inc.
3. Schneck, D. J. (1997). A paradigm for the physiology of human adaptation. In Schneck, D. J., and Schneck, J. K. (Eds.), Music in Human Adaptation (pp. 1-22). Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech Press/MMB Music, St. Louis, MO.
4. Schneck, D. J., and Berger, D. (1999). The role of music in physiologic accommodation. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 18, 44-53.
5. Williams, D. (2003). Exposure Anxiety: An Exploration of Self-Protection Responses in the Autism Spectrum and Beyond. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
6. Berger, D. S. (2002). Music Therapy, Sensory Integration and the Autistic Child. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
7. Damasio, A. R. (2002). PBS Series The Secret Life of the Brain, Segment 4: The Adult Brain.
8. Damasio, A. R. (1994). Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain. New York: Grosset/Putnam Books.
9. Damasio, A. R. (1999). The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness. New York: Harcourt Brace.
10. Schneck, D. J., and Berger, D. S. (2002). Music, brain and physiologic function: How does my brain process sensory information? What does my brain do with music? Why? Paper presented at the Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Music Therapy, Odey, N. (Ed.), Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 8-12 May 2002.
11. See bibliographic references in Berger, D.S. (2002). Music Therapy, Sensory Integration and the Autistic Child. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. See also Zatorre, R. J., and Peretz, I., Eds. (2001). The Biological Foundations of Music. New York: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 930. Additional materials on work and research in Music and Music Therapy may be found at www.musictherapy.org, www.jkp.com, www.mmbmusic.com, www.uwec.edu/academic/curric/rasarla/research, www.imr.utsa.edu/CAIRSS.htm, www.music-research.org, www.musica.uci.edu/mrw.
12. See bibliographic references in Berger, D.S. (2002). Music Therapy, Sensory Integration and the Autistic Child. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. See also Zatorre, R. J., and Peretz, I., Eds. (2001). The Biological Foundations of Music. New York: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 930. Additional materials on work and research in Music and Music Therapy may be found at www.musictherapy.org, www.jkp.com, www.mmbmusic.com, www.uwec.edu/academic/curric/rasarla/research, www.imr.utsa.edu/CAIRSS.htm, www.music-research.org, www.musica.uci.edu/mrw.
13. Schneck, D. J. (2001). The seven rudimentary axioms of reality. American Laboratory, 33, 6-8.
14. Schneck, D. J. (2000). All God's creations got rhythm! American Laboratory, 32, 6-8.
15. Thaut, M. H., Miller, R. A., and Schauer, M. (1997). Rhythm in human otor control: Adaptive mechanisms in movement synchronization. In Schneck, D. J., and Schneck, J. K. (Eds.), Music in Human Adaptation (pp. 191-198). Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech Press/MMB Music, St. Louis, MO.
16. Thaut, M. H., Kenyon, G. P., Schauer, M. L., and McIntosh, G. C. (1999). The connection between rhythmicity and brain function. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 18, 1-108.
17. Based on observation and documentation of clinical work at The Music Therapy Clinic in Norwalk, CT, and other locations, conducted by Board Certified Music Therapists in one-on-one and group sessions with clients of various diagnoses. Further case examples and explanations may be found in Berger, D. (2002). Music Therapy, Sensory Integration and the Autistic Child. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
18. Helfrich-Miller, K. A. (1994). Clinical perspective: Melodic intonation therapy for developmental apraxia. Clinics in Communication Disorders, 4.
19. Bonakdarpour, B., Eftekharzadeh, A., and Ashayeri, H. (2002). Preliminary report on the effects of melodic intonation therapy in the rehabilitation of Persian aphasie patients, Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences, 25, 156-160.
20. Patel, A. D., Tramo, M. J., and Labreque, R. (1998). Processing prosodie and musical patterns: A neuropsychological investigation. Brain and Language, 61, 123-144.
21. Valentinuzzi, M. E., and Arias, N. E. (1999). Human psychophysiological perception of musical scales and nontraditional music. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 18, 54-60.
22. Tramo, M. J. (2002). Functional role of auditory cortex in frequency processing and pitch perception, J. Neurophysiology, 87, 122-139
23. As an example of clinical work, a Kelt's syndrome girl receiving 1-hour weekly treatment at The Music Therapy Clinic in Norwalk, CT, was exposed to a steady dose of live, quiet music therapy and learned to temper her sensory distress and ensuing fear responses. Over a period of four months she was able to modulate her behavior from screaming, shaking and crying to smiling and calming her hand grip. Over the next 6-month period of continued music therapy interventions, her system appeared to accept this stress-reducing "safe" external element, and she was able to modulate away from fear of the environment to a calming physiologic norm. After a year of this intervention, her parent and home educator were able to introduce slow, soft music to quiet the fear response, enabling the child to attend to academic information.
24. McAdams, S. (1989). Psychological constraints on form-bearing dimensions in music, Contemporary Music Review, IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, Paris, http://mediatheque.ircam.fr/articles/textes/McAdams89a.
25. Patrick, G. (1999). The effects of vibroacoustic music on symptom reduction. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 18, 97-100.
26. Maranto, C. (1993). Music therapy and stress management. In Lehrer, P., and Woolfolk, R. (Eds.), Principles and Practice in Stress Management (2nd ed., pp. 407-442). New York: Guilford Press.
27. Maranto, C. (Ed.). (1991). Applications of Music in Medicine. Washington, DC: National Association of Music Therapy.
28. Wigram, T., and Dileo, C. (Eds.). (1997). Music Vibration and Health. Cherry Hill, NJ: Jeffrey Books.
29. Chesky, K., Russell, I., Lopez, J., and Kondraske, G. (1997). Fibromyalgia tender joint pain: A double-blind placebo-controlled pilot study of music using Music Vibration Table. Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain, 5, 33-52.
30. Ho, Y.-C., Cheung, M.-C., and Chan, A. S. (2003). Music training improves verbal but not visual memory: Cross-sectional and longitudinal explorations in children. Neuropsychology, 17(3), 439-450.