Music influences people’s brains in various ways, improving emotional, neurological, and physical aspects. María Palomo Melero, a student of ISEP’s Master 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 wants to show how music improves well-being. Among many examples, she highlights how, when listened to while we remain in a low state of 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 penitentiary centers. Its multiple applications demonstrate the close link between psychology and musical neurology.
In her work, María Palomo presents The Influence of Music on the Brain, showing 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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