Neuroscience is reinventing music therapy

We know that all the music is therapy for different type of people as different people loves different type of music.every music have its own audience so music is evergreen for those audience who loves music.Some people becomes happy when they listen to the music Read below that how neuroscience is reinveting music therapy.

When astrophysicist and accomplished classical vocalist Priyamvada Natarajan of Yale University listens to music as she tackles some of the most complex problems in cosmology, it is not to get into a “mood”. “It is beyond that — it is to get into a mode of thinking.”

Bengaluru-based triathlete Anu Vaidyanathan, who finished sixth in the punishing Ultraman Canada Triathlon in 2013, has learnt Carnatic vocal and violin. She says music taught her to negate performance-inhibiting feelin ..

 “There is very little empirical experiment in Indian classical music these days. Starting from texts dealing with Sankhya philosophy to the Natyashastra to the more recent lakshanagranthas in music like Swaramelakalanidhi (written by Ramamatya of the Vijayanagar empire in 1550), the psychological impact of musical concepts has been clearly worked out,” says Navaratna.

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There are many aspects of Carnatic music — from an alapana (form of melodic improvisation that introduces and develops a raga) to a neraval (when the artiste takes a line from a composition and sings this line over and over, with a new variation each time) — that reveal the potential for research in the Carnatic idiom. “An alapana is the result of a lot of what we call embodied knowledge.

We have to look at different processes of the mind — implicit memory, executive control and so  ..

It is not about teaching Konnakkol to children, but about using the practices in Konnakkol to initiate learning in other spheres, stresses Athreya. The creative aspect of Indian music where one is producing new patterns all the time helps in opening up new neural pathways, and in some cases of Alzheimer’s and dementia, it can be more beneficial than learning a new language, he notes.

It is clearly important to move beyond the simplistic stimulus-response model, which reduces music therapy to just mood improvement or marginal cognitive impetus. Music is capable of a much more creative and transformative partnership with the brain. 

Via - economictimes.indiatimes.com/ 

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