Music therapy positively boosts cognition. Music helps improve writing, spatial reasoning, and is a powerful tool for emotional health.
Plus One Foundation provides programming in music therapy to help those affected with brain conditions. Look for our classes and programs to help with recovery.
Kaylee Allen, a music therapist, shared with Plus One Foundation her philosophy on music therapy: “It's important to know that musical skills or ‘talent’ are not required prerequisites to enrolling in music therapy services. Anyone can benefit from music therapy because music is an intrinsic, human language. From in utero, through every stage of our development, and even through end-of-life, we as humans understand the language of music. Our bodies naturally synchronize to rhythm (from tapping our toes all the way down to our heart beats), we understand when a melody sounds happy or sad independently of the lyrics, and we can use music to express our deepest emotions. Those emotions that are beyond words, beyond description. And, importantly, we can be heard, and understood.”
Research demonstrates that patients with neurological disorders respond to music therapy. The benefit of music is cognitive, psychosocial, behavioral, and motor.
When a brain is viewed during music therapy the cerebellum, the frontal regions, and the hippocampus each are positively activated. The cerebellum perceives music with a strong production of rhythm and evokes emotional reactions; the frontal lobe neurons field memory recollection to performing daily tasks; the hippocampus is part of the limbic system and music has been shown to trigger positive emotions and reactions in the limbic system.
Check out our programming to learn more about opportunities to engage with music therapy! Plus One Foundation has classes and programs being added to our offerings throughout the year.
Thomas Lehrich
President