Musical training has emerged as a useful framework for the investigation of training-related
plasticity in the human brain. Learning to play an instrument is a highly complex task that …

Background Aphasia is an acquired language impairment following brain damage that
affects some or all language modalities: expression and understanding of speech, reading …

The RAVDESS is a validated multimodal database of emotional speech and song. The
database is gender balanced consisting of 24 professional actors, vocalizing lexically …

Music has cognitive, psychosocial, behavioral and motor benefits for people with
neurological disorders such as dementia, stroke, Parkinson's disease (PD) and Autism …

NATIONAL BESTSELLER• With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought
to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is among the significant causes of morbidity and mortality in the
present world. Around 1.6 million persons sustain TBI, whereas 200,000 die annually in …

Recovery from aphasia can be achieved through recruitment of either perilesional brain
regions in the affected hemisphere or homologous language regions in the nonlesional …

Structure and function of the human brain are affected by training in both linguistic and
musical domains. Individuals with intensive vocal musical training provide a useful model for …

Johansson BB. Current trends in stroke rehabilitation. A review with focus on brain plasticity.
Acta Neurol Scand: 2011: 123: 147–159.© 2010 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Current …

Mirroring, an exercise practiced in Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT), is considered by
practitioners and patients to enhance emotional understanding and empathy for others …