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Amazing stuff!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyZQf0p73QM&feature=player_embedded

I did quite a lot of work with dementia/memory loss and tried to increase the amount of music used.

Amit, a wide range of emotions can be triggered by music, can they not? People are driven into wild dances, involuntarily stimulated to march in step by a military band, become highly elated or moved to tears. A lot more to it than relaxation, don't you agree?

It was actually music therapy I had in mind, but I agree that there are lots of other aspects to music.

BTW, is it my imagination, or have a couple of posts vanished from this thread?

Music does have its therapeutic values. It certainly is an area that should be researched more.

I think they were deleted , perhaps.
thats what happens to some of my post at least , mostly because of relevance or off topic reasons , sometimes its
because its a you tube video or stuff like that.

or you might have just dreamed that you posted something
and didnt really do it , or you slipped back in time a day or so , nothing to worry about though just try to remember what
you posted and re-post it.

I think that in some instances such as a person who is
in the hospital or a nursing home as in the video the
music and even books (such as the Bible) that a person could and would normally read or listen to would greatly benefit that person , even if the only relief was due to a form of escape from the normal sounds that the person would be subjected to while in the hospital or nursing home.

music can take you away , I remember in grade school the teacher would put a record on and tell us to lay our heads on our desk and picture ourselves where the music was being played.

and it worked , I could fly to wherever the music was.

so yes I think more research is needed into the medical possibilities of treatments using sounds.

thinking of someone who is on life support , unable to even talk or communicate in any means , this would be a real blessing as long as they are not subjected to music that they do not like.

It's a personal conspiracy. My posts have only vanished since I started talking to you.

That's quite likely at any time, but especially in these times of lack of sleep.

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