How Music Can Heal the Brain
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
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Sometimes you hear music and you automatically tap your foot, or do a little dance, or walk to the beat. What’s happening in your brain that makes your body move like that? Can music’s effects on movement or speech rewire your brain?
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It's for that reason that people who stutter can sing without stuttering ♥
Oh wow!
it's also because by concentrating on anything a lot you can stutter less, or even people with tics like people with tourettes will have less to no tics while singing because they are concentrating so much
That's cool! Ty!
Everybody's saying that the scatman stutters but doesn't ever stutter when he sings
Ozzy is a good example of this. It's two different parts of the brain for music and speech.
As someone who's dealt with mental illness and been obsessed with music my entire life, thank you.
I'm in the same boat. Most of my teen years was spent dealing with undiagnosed, then untreated depression, and music is what got me through some of it. There are songs I still love now even though they no longer really apply or I don't find the music to my taste anymore purely because I know THAT song is part of why I'm still around today.
@@Xanthelei Same! I'm in a much better place now and I'll listen to the music that got me through back then and appreciate it in a new light, including the fact that it helped me through. And now I'm the happiest I've ever been and I have a new set of music to helps keep that going.
@@duran-yt What kind of music do you listen to the most?
I need my music lesson. I have taken them for years.
What i wanna know is what type of music was used in all these studies? And would you get different results for different genres?
The type of music can vary a great deal. Particularly in speech rehabilitation or memory work for dementia, the music the patient is most familiar with will be the most helpful. The tempo matters in things like gate rehabilitation, and there are definitely considerations in psychotherapy, but music is very personal. A board certified music therapist will be trained in most of the common genres and willing to learn whatever music the patient needs in order to recover.
It varies from study to study, you can click the links to the sources in the show notes to find out more. Just from a quick glance, it seems many of the ones involving parkinsons or poststroke patients involve folk/country/classic/jazz instrumentals in 2/4 or 4/4 time with tempo matched to cadence
Like others have said, it depends on the needs of the the therapy and sometimes the desires of the patient. For example, if the clients you are working with need physical therapy, the music is usually something with a strong consistent beat, that is familiar, but not necessarily needing to be a favorite song. However, if you were to work with clients with Alzheimer's or dementia, you would try to use songs that are older and they are familiar with from a young age to help bring them into the moment.
My wife has a Masters in Music Therapy, and was specifically trained in Neurological Music Therapy and worked as a music therapist in rehab. She learned to play several different instruments, but the therapy she did would often use an Auto Harp while walking in front of a patient working on their gait after a TBI, or they use percussion instruments as targets or focal points for specific physical exercises. For physical rehab, the music therapy is about shaping the movement using the music and usually is about a strong consistent beat or rhythm. Generally, though, the music therapist is working in tandem with other therapists (physical, occupational, speech, etc) to work on integrating the music therapy to drive or help along the other therapy goals.
I studied Music Therapy in school and have since been certified to practice! Music is very situational and also catered to things like what the treatment is for and what goal does the client need to achieve. If you want someone to remain engaged/stay awake, you won't be singing something like a lullaby to them. Instead, you would sing something they are familiar with (preferred music) and engage them in a task that way. If someone needs help relaxing or reducing anxiety, music with slower, predictable movement will be used to help ground them. Age is also something you have to consider. You won't be singing the ABC song to an adult and vice versa, you won't sing something like Led Zeppelin or Boston to someone who is in the first grade. There are also different approaches in music therapy just like how in psychology, there are different approaches to things like counseling (CBT, psychiatry, psychodynamic, etc.). This video touched on an approach called neurological music therapy which is very rigorous in treatment where it focuses more on the treatment method found in the elements of music itself for rehab purposes and less so on preferred music that was mentioned earlier. At the end of the day, music therapy is very flexible in treatment and can co-treat with many related fields throughout the span of one's life (neo-natal, school age, adolescence/teens, adults, seniors, older adults, end of life care).
So how would music from like chipzel, radiohead, caravan palace the strokes ect effect the mind?
" 3:30 listening to music significantly speed up patiences walking pace " I just imagined a lot of old people on an asylum walking fast whit cranes while aggressive rock music plays in the background xD
Imagine how they'd walk to Extratone lol
patients’
I AM THE GRANNY THAT IS APPROACHING
PROVOKING
MY GRANDCHILD'S SUGAR HIGH
I AM THE RECLAIMER OF MY BED
FALLEN DENTURES
WHERE IS MY CANE
WHAT DO YOU MEAN I HAVEN'T TAKEN MY MEDS
I used music to re-teach myself to walk properly! I had a failed knee surgery that left me with significant atrophy, and was in a leg brace for a long time. Once I was healed enough to start walking without the brace, I couldn't walk correctly without constantly telling myself, "bend, straighten, bend, straighten" (I walked with my leg completely straight, as if it were still locked in the brace). I solved the problem by downloading a music running app that matched your music to your gait--so, like, if you ran at 100 steps per minute, it would give you music for 100 bpm. I set it for twice my steps per minute so that every first beat would match my foot hitting the ground and every second beat would match my knee being bent the maximum amount. I spent a few minutes getting used to it, and voila! I could walk correctly without constantly thinking about it. After a few weeks of this, I could walk correctly without my music most of the time. Basically, the music helped me re-wire my brain to break the incorrect walking pattern and replace it with the proper one.
I have autism and music is and always has been very important to me and can help to calm me down when I get sensory overload.
If I may I ask, does complex music cause you sensory overload?
(I'm thinking of progressive bands like Animals As Leaders, or Yes, or Tool?)
Or would their complexity simply be another soothing experience compared to the occasionally overstimulating external world?
I once met a lower functioning, non-verbal guy and his mood would adjust to whatever music was played, he loved Johnny cash music but if anything more aggressive was played like rock then he would get angry and try to fight people.
@@davetoms1 It depends. I know that some other autistic people have trouble listening to a lot of music because they'll get sensory overload.
For me I'd say usually not? Because I listen to nearly every genre and enjoy it, though some songs do better at helping my sensory overload than others. Like I would not listen to say the beatles revolution #9 while trying to deal with my sensory overload, but casually and for fun I would. I usually listen to more folk, pop, and soft rock for sensory overload. But I do listen to grunge, metal and rap and thoroughly enjoy it. Music is the one thing I don't mind being too loud. Though a lot of songs that have like weird uncomfortable noises I try and avoid usually. I do like when there are nice harmonies and a lot of instruments if they all sound good together and stuff. Sometimes one day a song will freak me out and another I'll love the song... It kinda depends I guess. Sorry for the long comment, I'm bad at simplifying my thoughts sometimes haha
@@arkidie long comments are nice, for me I love reading other peoples's perceptions and experiences. Thank you!
@@arkidie As someone with ADHD and possible undiagnosed autism, music is ESSENTIAL for me to manage sensory overload and stress. The way i think it works is that the sensation of listening to music (usually with headphones) overrides all other stimuli and allows me to focus on one thing.
Also, slow, typically "relaxing" music doesn't work for this. For me, the more intense the music the better.
Glad I'm not the only one that listens to music to cope
I vouch for it 100%. I was in a coma for 11 days and I listened to music the whole time (I wasn't supposed to be able to talk, move or think normally if I woke up) but I woke up and was fine (paralyzed and had a TON of injuries but Brain wise, fine). I also used it during dressing changes, (I had a fist sized hole in my abdomen and a seat belt injury that had to be packed all the way to my kidney) which were excruciatingly painful but I wasn't allowed much medication because they were trying to ween me off of it so they could send me home without needing hard narcotics. I wouldn't have gotten through those dressing changes if I hadn't closed my eyes and focused on Simon & Garfukel and The Foo Fighters and a few other CDs I had at the time.
All of my nurses thought it was a little dark for a 14 year old girl to be listening to Bridge Over Troubled Water during an extremely painful procedure, but it worked for me and I wasn't about to stop it!
I haven’t even finished the video; and I sit in agreement. Music keeps me sane.
I have a laundry list of mental and developmental health issues and have been a caretaker for relatives with neurological disorders; I dont have to watch this to tell you music is healing.
I’ve never related more to this comment. I’m wishing you the best of luck and good vibes.
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I dance to any and all music even if it's only playing in my head.
We're healthy people *high five*
as all must do
I do my best dancing to the music in my head!
Worth noting that my best dancing is still awful lol
@@davetoms1 Same here.
Even to the cheesy earworms and consumer-tiered saturated pitch-corrected songs?
I have a few mental and developmental disorders and I've found that music is often very comforting/cathartic. It's a good way of communicating emotions that are hard for me to express normally. I wonder if melodic intonation therapy could be used to help people with autism?
There are many different types of therapeutic methods in music therapy that would be helpful depending on the person's needs. My wife previously ran her own music therapy business, had at least one client with autism. So, depending on the therapeutic goals, I wouldn't hurt to inquire with a music therapist in your area to find out. There is a list of Board Certified Music Therapists at the American Music Therapy Association, and I know there are Music Therapists who come from around the world to be trained in Neurologic Music Therapy, if you are located outside the states.
Music makes Me feel better that's all i know😃
I'm a musician so I can say that it certainly does something
I suffered a TBI a few years ago, and was in a coma for almost two weeks. I was in a foreign country, so my family had been told to leave music playing for me when they couldn’t be with me, so I would still hear English. One of the symptoms that I was coming out of the coma was that I was mouthing along and attempting to sing the songs. Music is incredibly healing. I just wish I had gotten some music therapy along with all the other therapies, I think my recovery would’ve been quicker than it was.
That part about singing helping with aphasia just blew my mind. I cant be the only one who sings a little song when I can't remember something and then suddenly it pops back into my head
I never thought of doing that. I usually just stop trying to recall the thing and then it comes back on its own, but now i wonder if a song would work quicker.
I've always known that some things are easier to memorize to a short tune, like how you can speed sing the alphabet but may forget if p or o comes first while organizing. I also learned several calc rules to the tune of nursery rhymes and i can say i know the math versions better.
It don’t pop in your head if you feel hurt in it it’s healing apeckx5090
I had to have emergency surgery for a cyst related to a brain tumor that I have last month so this video feels so fitting. I've learned many times since I was diagnosed that music can really impact both how I've healed and how I feel. I've had more conversations than I can count with my doctors about how much music has helped me as I've recovered.
Stroke and heart failure survivor here. My neuro and cardio were both astounded in the dramatic change in me. From ICU and almost flatlined, i was able to turn the tables around in less than a month. The only noticeable 'damage' to me is my vocal muscles tend to falter when I speak for a long period of time (cant help it, am a blabbermouth). And my hand grip is not as strong as before. They were expecting at least 6 months.
They didn't expect it considering the dosage of meds they gave me. They were little dosage because they fear it may affect my heart. What they didn't know is, I implemented music therapy on my own. On my own because both of them don't believe music therapy works in my situation. I listened to classical music, some binaural beats, and solfeggio tunes. Although am categorized already as differently abled, I guess I can still do the evil laugh in my head whenever they proudly say it's a miracle I survived.
I bought some wireless earbuds and the sound quality was so nice I started listening to music at home again. Usually I would sit and watch videos or listen to podcasts but now it's nice to have the ability to move around more. Last night I tried out a chill/jazz/lo-fi playlist and actually had the energy to do more of my nightly routine! Depressive habits/cycles are hard to get past sometimes... Will be trying music more!
Try some happy hardcore, or something high bpm like psytrance and you'll be grooving in no time.
Lo-fi saves me most days. I put it on while I work and it helps so much. I think it drowns out the constant chatter in my head.
The master and his emissary is a brilliant book on the relationship between the left and right hemisphere,
Music is the right hemispheres equivalent for the lefts hemispheres language,
And this is a fascinating discovery in terms of the types of communication we need as social animals,
Music is an essential form of human experience and communication.
SciShow: Music is helpful and important
Music professionals: *DESCEND ON THIS VIDEO AND DROWN THE COMMENTS WITH AGREEMENT*
I have anxiety and depression... I put my 🎧 my favourite tunes on and get dancing and singing. Music has always healed me ✌
Hi, I’m Colin Firth from the King’s Speech, and I approve this message
I can attest to this; I swear my broken heart heals a little bit more every time I listen to Avi Kaplan sing or do bass notes.
Omg now I understand why music always helps me with reigning in ADHD.
Hmmm I used to always have music and never tv...now tv is on to distract silence..I can't do silence in this horrible for me environment
I’ve heard about a lot of this research but that the degree of success in the result depends on if the person likes the music or not. Suggests that there are better choices than renaissance music ;)
Renaissance dance music has a very easy beat to follow, so it would be good for people needing to work on walking. They probably also used that music because it is not a familiar or popular genre, so it would be a control against whether the genre was important. It was used in a study, after all. For actual therapy sessions, they would be more likely to take musical preferences into account. Plus there are a lot of people who like renaissance dance music, or at least think it is adequate (most people wouldn’t pick it as a favourite). It sure beats having therapists assume your musical tastes based on your age or what is popular now or what they like.
I wonder if the deep vibrations of Mongolian throat singing (which I like) might help heal the body. That may sound crazy, but cats purr to heal and calm themselves too, not just when they're content.
it makes chores easier psychologically.
like HowToADHD said, it's like "opening a door in the brick wall-of-awful"
Is that a RUclips channel or what? It sounds like something i need in my life
@@AskMia411 Yes, How To ADHD is an amazing channel, Jessica's videos are quite engaging and encouraging and have helped me a lot. Definitely check it out!
@@celestenamya5537 I will, thank you so much!
When they mentioned that it helps with issues in the orbital frontal cortex (with focus and stuff) I was thinking about maybe it works for ADHD. I'll have to go watch Jessica's video on that. She is amazing!
It is amazing how much music helps in so many ways. It also allows me to dance around my apartment when I'm having a good day and just forget about everything else.
I have that book at the end as well! Phantoms in the Brain is a very good book. It gave me more insight into some of the inner workings of my brain while dealing with a tumor.
so thats why i liked windows XP audio visualization so much!
I work as a cna and I often use music to help clients.
How do deaf people's brains differ, if they can't comprehend music in the same way?
I was wondering the same thing
I suppose they could feel a bassline if it was played loud enough.
Reminds me of an episode of House M.D. where a he puts a boomblaster on a deaf kid's chest.
They can feel bass ❤️
wave frequencies are more powerful yhan anyone ever imagined yet
Music has the power to make you feel better.
As a wood worker listening to music helps me remember all the individual steps of a project. Talking to people increases my chance of error. Listening to music I make way less errors. I’m still not perfect.
I am currently studying to become a certified music therapist and it made me so happy to see this!
Music definitely helps me remember things that I have forgotten from time to time
Now we know how the emperor got his groove back.
😂
Boom baby. :0)
Nah he got a new groove brah
Music is one of the most important and prevalent things in my life.
I have different playlists for different emotions, it bolsters whatever I'm feeling at the time. It's so cathartic.
This topic of the brain on music could be an amazing expanded series (if it isn’t already)
Music is a form of real, reproducible magic.
I believe this fully. On a bad day, just sitting back and listening to music really helps with stress and anxiety.
Nice to see Brit hosting again! makes sense music helping, and music therapy can help too.
My mom has some aphasia and sings still ❤ it's wonderful because losing music would've been a lot harder on her
Music does all of this amazing stuff. Except improve my dance skills! Great video!
Music definitely helps me 100%
As a kid I listened to music when i slept and unrecently I remembered and got back to doing that and i love it
Stroke survivor here. I used music to help me walk again 💙
yes it can - helps me whenever I'm having troubles or if I need to recharge or think
Music has always helped me. Several of my earliest memories involved music. I can see how moving to Bolero could be very beneficial.
Random fact
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-Shazistic
@Rafael Dejesus Essentially certain plastic chemicals in the water bottle start leaching into the water over time.
SciShow: Music can heal the brain.
Me: Que's Rob Zombie's 'King Freak'
nice to meat you
I always turn to music to feel better🎸🎷🎶🥁🎻🎺🎤
5:50 Blinkist app ( narrows all the information in books to the main points!)
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Not only can music heal the brain,
it has saved my soul time and time again
(I'm an atheist who doesn't believe in the soul, but you know what I mean)
the new brutal death metal from overseas is healing something hearing those vocals is something else! check out death prophecy from Indonesia!
Very accurate to me, in regards to the square toe boots tapping 😂
Incredible how even the adult brain is still fairly malleable!
You're so good on shows like this, when you're not influenced by your ideology but just by science and genuine good intentions. And not distorted in your thinking by your strong implicit biases -- the ones actually formed and enforced in your minds by your ideology, not the things your ideology itself calls and vilifies people with under the label of "implicit bias".
music IS medicine
Thank you
I suffer from depression and music has always helped when I'm feeling down.
Music has definitely helped me
My mum ran a music class for people with learning disabilities, and several of them could sing words that they couldn't speak.
And that, my friend, is why I want to be a music therapist.
I need to sign up for a paid music service because the absolute crap advertising on the radio makes me more upset than when I don't listen at all.
Pandora has a free version. There are ads but if you pay 5 bucks a month there is none.
yes!! music therapy helps me lessen the pain caused by my deppresion, and helps me avoid having nevative thoughts.
YES, this is why we NEED "Ode to Joy flash" mobs all over the country right now. Like the 2019 OPUS flash mob YT clip, WONDERFUL.
melodic intonation therapy helped Bumblee a lot
I have a little weird story here. Based on my own finding I seem to get a specific headache at a very specific location at my brain.
After researching which parts that were affected, it didn’t make any sense. Compared to the inside world that evolved in my dreams, which is a planet with areas connected to my personality. The headaches seem to hit at the areas of my brain where in that planet would be the region that is feeling a bit off. Idk how to put this in words cause I don’t fully understand it myself. I’ll give an example:
Recently I started to feel better, anxiety was weakening. Anxiety has a place in that fantasy world called “the scar”, a deep canyon at the north of the planet, at the west side. So when I felt better I got a headache, specifically at the area where the anxiety is. Which doesn’t make sense since that area of the brain actually controls the motor skills. And exactly at the opposite site of the “North Pole” is the love valley. When I started to fall for someone I went I a bit too far out my comfortzome which always causes headaches, but now it targeted the leftside top brains
To me, music doesn't just heal my brain... it's like my therapist. Your loved ones don't last forever... but music never ends as long as you keep listening. Your therapist is just as human as you, and maybe you don't wanna get too far into your problems, for fear that they might get hurt, but music doesn't feel pain, and it can be as real or as fake as you want it to be. Inanimate Objects break down over time, but music never truly changes, unless you find new meaning in it. People judge you, even if you're not listening in, but music doesn't even care. Call me obsessed, I don't care. Music is my therapy. Listening to it is therapeutic. Writing it is therapeutic. Music is just therapeutic to me.
Wow, a new sponsor after all these years... The revolution has begun
Great voice of pronounce... blessings too
3:00 - so basically, Bumblebee? :D
i have a MICHAEL MEDICINE (all fast beats) playlist, among many other music playlists, BECAUSE I KNOW HOW MUSIC MEDICATES ME and, apparently, HEALS MY BRAIN!!!
Well this is fantastic.
Brain left side: stops working
Brain right side: must i do everything
If we can use sound cannons as crowd control and to levitate things, why can't we use targeted sound to treat tumors and diseases?
Aight, time to listen to music 24/7
"Did you say "Abe Lincoln"?"
"No, I said "Hey Blinkist!""
Nice to meet you too!
I fear how bad my ADHD would be had I not done orchestra from 4th grade to senior year
Nice to meet you!
Now I know why it's good to hear music in case of 💔💔
* Cue Johnette Napolitano's "Heal it up" *
i have found that i can greatly reduce my migraine pain by listening to binaural beats, i dont know if or how it works but my only concern when i have a migraine is to get rid of the migraine.
Now I want a lego tat too!
Can music help people with conditions such as ADHD, dyspraxia and autism? If so, what sort of music -- or would that be tailored to the individual? I would imagine that playing an instrument would be beneficial, too, because of all the different skills needed and developed in many different areas of the brain. I'm just pondering possibilities. I hope a team of researchers somewhere are looking into all this... Very interesting...
that moment when they publish a video and you're like "dang maybe I'm secretly a genius because I actually already knew this"
Music is good medicine.
Your love is like bad medicine. Bad medicine is all I need!
can you please do an episode on how after 10 years those improvements start to backslide with the early stages of CTE until 20 years after injury those people are pretty much nonfunctional again. also how CTE is a prion disease and painful like BSE (mad cow)?
Can music be used in a similar way to treat mental disorders that aren't caused by physical trauma? I was recently diagnosed with dysthymia (aka Persistent Depressive Disorder), a step up from the general "depression" diagnosis I got years ago. My depression is treatment-resistant as well, I can't count the number of medications and therapies I've tried without success. I understand y'all are not doctors and this is something that I would ultimately need to talk to my therapist and psychiatrist about, but I'm also just curious in general. An interesting thing to note- just something I've experienced- I take walks for both my physical and mental health, but I am able to stay focused on walking much longer if I'm listening to music, and the time signature of the music informs my walking speed. I wonder if the psychological benefit isn't just from walking, but from being exposed to music for such a long period of time (my walks are usually an hour but can be up to three hours- this is time spent doing nothing but moving and listening to music).
Do yall know more about the science of sauna's on the mind? All the videos i found look kinda wavy. Mayby a video idea?
Wow great blessings
Does it matter what genre type of music it is?
Unless it's music you hate that makes you feel bad and stressed and increases your heartrate and stress hormones.
I keep hearing Carmina Burana in my head ☹
That's me! I listen to music! But you know I don't have music thearpy, so you know nothing crazy. But life is hard, and I listen to music. I mean its nice and powerful, but life is still hard..
When pp stumble on their words, in Dutch we have the saying "zing het eens" translation: "try to sing it". Hmm... that might actually work.
Do we? Never heard of it
What’s the best genre of music to reduce anxiety? I heard that reducing anxiety can also reduce inflammation in the body. Can anyone verify this?
DId you do a video on Binaural Beats yet?