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2010-03-05 Science & Technology

Drumming to your fave tunes helps repair traumatic brain injuries

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Posted by trailing wife 2010-03-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Theraputic Device

Posted by badanov 2010-03-05 00:35|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2010-03-05 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Having fun is good for you?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-03-05 02:54|| 2010-03-05 02:54|| Front Page Top

#3 The rhythmic movement is a form of brainwave entrainment. Same thing happens when music and dance are used by shamans and dervishes to enter a state of coherent brain activity in a certain frequency. Most people think that the brain - body link goes one way but we now have clinical evidence that each affects the other.

There's a lot of rebuilding required to repair major brain damage, but it's encouraging that it is happening.

For people without major brain damage, there are several decades of research that show that listening to certain rhythms and sound frequencies can induce more coherent brainwave activity at frequencies of choice, from the slowest frequencies associated with deep sleep through states conducive to creativity up to the super focused state that top athletes experience during peak performance. Some of the neurochemical pathways involved have been identified in detail.

Posted by lotp 2010-03-05 06:06|| 2010-03-05 06:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Kind of goes like this:

Posted by Omiger Munster7997 2010-03-05 06:28|| 2010-03-05 06:28|| Front Page Top

#5 It should be noted that lotp's comment about 'frequency of choice' is after a determination of the frequency(s) that are determined to be where the brain is functioning badly. The research has shown that 'tuning' the frequency of a TBI patient's brain to a different frequency can have beneficial effect.

As a recent victim myself of 'minor' TBI as a result of a motor vehicle accident, I had already figured out that watching/listening to my favorite bands playing live was therapeutic. This article is very interesting to me. As well, I may be undergoing the 'frequency' treatment myself to resolve some very minor, yet still TBI-like persistent symtoms.

Advice: If you are involved in even a minor incident that has even the slightest possibility of trauma to the brain and you notice even a MINOR effect, insist on seeing a specialist, even a therapeutic psychoanalyist (psychiatrist). I've since met people that were involved in incidents that they now recognize resulted in post-concussive symptoms but, due to lack of diagnosis at the time, lacked treatment and may have put themselves at risk of secondary injury (which is MOST dangerous). This applies to people in sports as well (search NFL +concussion), especially children.

Posted by logi_cal 2010-03-05 07:34|| 2010-03-05 07:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Yup.

For those without brain damage, the CDs/MP3s that Kelly Howell has developed have a pretty good reputation and track record. Search on Brainsync and ignore the new agey trappings ...

Posted by lotp 2010-03-05 07:37|| 2010-03-05 07:37|| Front Page Top

#7 There are all sorts of potentially useful variants to this, that are real "brain teasers", some used by musicians, some not.

For example, "pat your head and rub your belly".

Writing and drawing with your left hand if you are right handed. Writing in longhand, but tilting your words to the left.

Orchestra conductors train with a simple technique of hand tapping. For example, their right and left hands do a "one-two" beat, left and right, on a table in front of them, so they are moving mirror image. Then their left hand changes to a "one-two-three" beat at the same tempo and time. This is not easy.

Learning to use chopsticks by using them to move marbles from one box to another.

Ben Franklin's memory game. A tray full of small, different objects covered by a thin, opaque cloth. Remove the cloth for 10 seconds, while looking at the objects, then cover the tray again. Then write down as many of the objects as you can remember.

They should also get a bunch of Simon electronic memory games.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-03-05 11:25|| 2010-03-05 11:25|| Front Page Top

#8 I find it interesting when olde ways are scientifically proven.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-03-05 17:41|| 2010-03-05 17:41|| Front Page Top

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