Music influences people’s brains in various ways, improving emotional, neurological, and physical aspects. María Palomo Melero, a student of ISEP’s Master’s in Music Therapy, develops her master’s final project on how music therapy can improve the sequelae resulting from a cerebral stroke episode.
With her thesis, she aims to show how music improves well-being. Among many examples, she highlights how, when listened to while in a state of low consciousness, it helps us express feelings that we are unable to convey with words. Currently, we find music therapy services in rehabilitation or aid for personal growth, life situations of change or crisis, surgical psychoprophylaxis, ordinary education and special education, mental disorders, developmental delays and disorders, physical, sensory, and neurological disabilities, oncology and terminal illnesses, geriatrics, intensive care, communities or groups at risk of social exclusion, and correctional facilities. Its multiple applications demonstrate the close link between psychology and musical neurology.
María Palomo presents in her work The Influence of Music on the Brain how music therapy helps acquire lost skills after a stroke episode, contributes to improving the quality of life of these people, improving their self-esteem, their mood, and, ultimately, their desire to live and enjoy.
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