MUSIC AND THE BRAIN -

WHAT REALLY
HAPPENS…...
 DOPAMINE (3,4-
dihydroxyphenethylamine)
IS SYNTHESISED AND
RELEASED!
 DOPAMINERGIC PATHWAY

MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINE SYSTEM

VENTRAL VENTRAL
TEGMENTAL STRIATUM
AREA (NUCLEUS
(DOPAMINE) ACCUMBENS)
CROSS-SECTION OF THE BRAIN
MUSIC THERAPY - DEFINITION
In his book Definìng Music Therapy (1998), Kenneth
Bruscia defines music therapy as “a systematic process of
intervention wherein the therapist helps the client to promote
health, using music experiences and the relationships that
develop through them as dynamic forces of change”.
WHAT IS MUSIC THERAPY?
1) Not about TEACHING/DEVELOPING MUSICAL SKILLS
2) Concept of Change
3) Change : Communication, cognition, physical, social,
emotional and neurological functioning
4) All ages, groups, individuals
5) Hospitals, Schools, Residential homes, Hearing
impairment centers, prisons, private practice
MAJOR APPLICATIONS OF MUSIC THERAPY

1) MUSIC FOR “INHERENT HEALING

QUALITIES” (PHYSICAL) - kidney dialysis,
premature babies, cancer
2) MUSIC AS MEANS OF SELF EXPRESSION
AND INTERACTION WITHIN A
THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP
MEDICAL DISORDERS
1) HEART DISEASES (CDHD)
2) NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS :
- STROKE
- DEMENTIA
- AMNESIA

3) PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS :

- POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

- SCHIZOPHRENIA
 SCHIZOPHRENIA
- MENTAL DISORDER
- ABNORMAL SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AND FAILURE TO UNDERSTAND
REALITY
- FALSE BELIEFS, CONFUSED THINKING, HEARING VOICES THAT
OTHERS DO NOT, REDUCED SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT, LACK OF
MOTIVATION
- ADDITIONAL PROBLEMS : ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, SUBSTANCE
ABUSE
- GENERALLY STARTS IN YOUNG ADULTHOOD, LASTS A LONG TIME
MUSIC THERAPY AND SCHIZOPHRENIA
- LOW DOSE (LESS THAN 20 MT SESSIONS) : NO SIGNIFICANT EFFECT
- HIGH DOSE (20 AND ABOVE MT SESSIONS) : SIGNIFICANT EFFECT
- EMOTIONAL INDIFFERENCES, INSENSITIVITY, POOR SOCIAL
INTERACTION, GENERAL LACK OF INTEREST - SIGNIFICANTLY
IMPROVED
- THUS, THE THERAPY WILL HAVE SIGNIFICANT EFFECTS ON
PATIENTS WHEN THERE ARE SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF SESSIONS
- BETTER THAN DRUGS, BECAUSE OF VERY MINIMAL OR NO SIDE
EFFECTS OF ‘MUSIC’
REFERENCES :
1) https://www.slideshare.net/4mirnikan/music-therapy-
29398151?qid=ab4d5844-1865-4d15-a622-
ceed0ac40f3c&v=&b=&from_search=2\
2) https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/benefits-of-using-music-therapy-in-
mental-disorders-2090-2719-1000116.php?aid=76546
3) http://scicurious.scientopia.org/2011/01/31/this-is-your-brain-on-music/
4) WIKIPEDIA (LOL)
5) GOOGLE IMAGES (NO TIME TO GET SEPERATE LINKS!)
Hoping for great changes with MUSIC,

THANK YOU