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ReviewNeuroRehabilitation2021

Neural plasticity: The substratum of music-based interventions in neurorehabilitation.

Diya Chatterjee, Shantala Hegde, Michael Thaut

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Review in NeuroRehabilitation, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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44 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 73 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Diya ChatterjeeSenior Research Fellow, Music Cognition Laboratory, Department of Clinical Psychology, NIMHANS, India.
Shantala HegdeAssociate Professor and Wellcome DBT India Alliance Intermediate Fellow, Clinical Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neurosciences Center and Music Cognition Laboratory, Department of Clinical Psychology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bengaluru, India.
Michael ThautMusic and Health Science Research Collaboratory and Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Institute of Mental Health · INNational Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences · INUniversity of Toronto · CA

Funding

DBT-Wellcome Trust India Alliance IA/CPHI/17/1/503348
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe plastic nature of the human brain lends itself to experience and training-based structural changes leading to functional recovery. Music, with its multimodal activation of the brain, serves as a useful model for neurorehabilitation through neuroplastic changes in dysfunctional or impaired networks. Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) contributes to the field of neurorehabilitation using this rationale.

objectiveThe purpose of this article is to present a discourse on the concept of neuroplasticity and music-based neuroplasticity through the techniques of NMT in the domain of neurological rehabilitation.

methodsThe article draws on observations and findings made by researchers in the areas of neuroplasticity, music-based neuroplastic changes, NMT in neurological disorders and the implication of further research in this field.

resultsA commentary on previous research reveal that interventions based on the NMT paradigm have been successfully used to train neural networks using music-based tasks and paradigms which have been explained to have cross-modal effects on sensorimotor, language and cognitive and affective functions.

conclusionsMultimodal gains using music-based interventions highlight the brain plasticity inducing function of music. Individual differences do play a predictive role in neurological gains associated with such interventions. This area deserves further exploration and application-based studies.

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BrainHumansLong-Term PotentiationMusicMusic TherapyNervous System DiseasesNeurological RehabilitationNeuronal PlasticityRecovery of Functionbrain plasticitymusicmusic-based interventionsNeural plasticityneurological rehabilitationneurologic music therapy

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PMID33579881
PMCPMC7613141
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