New research is looking into developing music-based treatments to help alleviate anxiety in dementia patients.
“People with dementia are confronted by a world that is unfamiliar to them, which causes disorientation and anxiety,” said Jeff Anderson, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor in Radiology at University of Utah Health and contributing author on the study. “We believe music will tap into the salience network of the brain that is still relatively functioning.”
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source https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/04/28/music-sparks-regions-of-brain-spared-by-alzheimers/134975.html
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