ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2014
Music mnemonics aid Verbal Memory and Induce Learning - Related Brain Plasticity in Multiple Sclerosis.
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- Potential benefits of music-based therapies on rehabilitation outcomes in people with multiple sclerosis: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2026Pooled it
- Memory rehabilitation for people with multiple sclerosis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Exploring the role of music therapy in multiple sclerosis: brief updates from research to clinical practice.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2019Pooled it
- Music interventions for acquired brain injury.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
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- Enhancing Mood, Cognition, and Quality of Life in Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis.Paediatric drugs · 2021Review
- Neural plasticity: The substratum of music-based interventions in neurorehabilitation.NeuroRehabilitation · 2021Review
- Motor Imagery: A Resource in the Fatigue Rehabilitation for Return-to-Work in Multiple Sclerosis Patients-A Mini Systematic Review.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Review
- Treatment and management of cognitive dysfunction in patients with multiple sclerosis.Nature reviews. Neurology · 2020Review
- Role of Sonification and Rhythmic Auditory Cueing for Enhancing Gait Associated Deficits Induced by Neurotoxic Cancer Therapies: A Perspective on Auditory Neuroprosthetics.Frontiers in neurology · 2019Article
- Cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying the mnemonic effect of songs after stroke.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2019Article
- Cognitive Deficits in Multiple Sclerosis: Recent Advances in Treatment and Neurorehabilitation.Current treatment options in neurology · 2018Review
- Effects of Rhythmic Auditory Cueing in Gait Rehabilitation for Multiple Sclerosis: A Mini Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2018Article
- Play along: effects of music and social interaction on word learning.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
- Orchestrating a New Path for Multiple Sclerosis: Achieving Physical, Cognitive, and Emotional Rehabilitation Goals Through Physical and Music Therapy.International journal of MS careArticle
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Abstract
Recent research on music and brain function has suggested that the temporal pattern structure in music and rhythm can enhance cognitive functions. To further elucidate this question specifically for memory, we investigated if a musical template can enhance verbal learning in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and if music-assisted learning will also influence short-term, system-level brain plasticity. We measured systems-level brain activity with oscillatory network synchronization during music-assisted learning. Specifically, we measured the spectral power of 128-channel electroencephalogram (EEG) in alpha and beta frequency bands in 54 patients with MS. The study sample was randomly divided into two groups, either hearing a spoken or a musical (sung) presentation of Rey's auditory verbal learning test. We defined the "learning-related synchronization" (LRS) as the percent change in EEG spectral power from the first time the word was presented to the average of the subsequent word encoding trials. LRS differed significantly between the music and the spoken conditions in low alpha and upper beta bands. Patients in the music condition showed overall better word memory and better word order memory and stronger bilateral frontal alpha LRS than patients in the spoken condition. The evidence suggests that a musical mnemonic recruits stronger oscillatory network synchronization in prefrontal areas in MS patients during word learning. It is suggested that the temporal structure implicit in musical stimuli enhances "deep encoding" during verbal learning and sharpens the timing of neural dynamics in brain networks degraded by demyelination in MS.
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