Re: [Finale] Re: TAN: Brain music

2005-08-07 Thread Christopher Smith
On Aug 2, 2005, at 10:07 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote: My wife is a nurse practitioner at the local VA nursing home, wh. offers a variety of adjuvant therapies including music therapy. The point of music therapy is to use music to help people with neurological problems to focus and find

Re: [Finale] Re: TAN: Brain music

2005-08-02 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Aug 1, 2005, at 11:15 AM, Phil Daley wrote: At 8/1/2005 10:26 AM, John Howell wrote: >(Of course I still don't understand what music therapy is or what music therapists do!) Oh, that brings up a long forgotten assignment in a grad school Writing Techniques class wherein I had to write a

Re: [Finale] Re: TAN: Brain music

2005-08-02 Thread Phil Daley
At 8/2/2005 10:07 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote: My wife is a nurse practitioner at the local VA nursing home, wh. offers a variety of adjuvant therapies including music therapy. The point of music therapy is to use music to help people with neurological problems to focus and find workarounds for

Re: [Finale] Re: TAN: Brain music

2005-08-02 Thread David W. Fenton
On 2 Aug 2005 at 10:32, Phil Daley wrote: I have no problem with music therapy for people who can hear. The studies I read were all about Music Therapy for totally deaf people. Yes, heaven knows that deaf people certainly have absolutely no use for music: http://www.evelyn.co.uk/ --

Re: [Finale] Re: TAN: Brain music

2005-08-02 Thread Adriel
on 8/2/05 4:49 PM, David W. Fenton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2 Aug 2005 at 10:32, Phil Daley wrote: I have no problem with music therapy for people who can hear. The studies I read were all about Music Therapy for totally deaf people. Yes, heaven knows that deaf people certainly

Re: [Finale] Re: TAN: Brain music

2005-08-01 Thread Adriel
Not only is it scientific. It's in fact very old and legit. Hinduism and Eastern medicine believe we all resonate at certain frequencies and respond to frequencies as well. Think of a note shattering a glass. Our molecules react the same way. Music therapy works in quite this way. What they

[Finale] Re: TAN: Brain music

2005-08-01 Thread John Howell
Title: [Finale] Re: TAN: Brain music At 2:58 AM -0400 8/1/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anybody would like to weigh in on whether they think this is science or crackpottery, I'd be interested. The journal itself is totally legit, btw. http://www.neuropsychiatryreviews.com/sep02

Re: [Finale] Re: TAN: Brain music

2005-08-01 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Aug 1, 2005, at 2:58 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anybody would like to weigh in on whether they think this is science or crackpottery, I'd be interested. The journal itself is totally legit, btw. http://www.neuropsychiatryreviews.com/sep02/npr_sep02_brainmusic.html The only problem

Re: [Finale] Re: TAN: Brain music

2005-08-01 Thread Crystal Premo
] From: Phil Daley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: finale@shsu.edu To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] Re: TAN: Brain music Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 11:15:40 -0400 At 8/1/2005 10:26 AM, John Howell wrote: (Of course I still don't understand what music therapy is or what music therapists do

Re: [Finale] Re: TAN: Brain music

2005-08-01 Thread Phil Daley
At 8/1/2005 03:12 PM, Crystal Premo wrote: I can tell you first hand that some music therapists are doing some very useful things with autistics and other folk with this sort of impairment. With some autistics, music helps them focus and be present, even severely autistic individuals. No cures,

Re: [Finale] Re: TAN: Brain music

2005-08-01 Thread Adriel
on 8/1/05 11:15 AM, Phil Daley at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 8/1/2005 10:26 AM, John Howell wrote: (Of course I still don't understand what music therapy is or what music therapists do!) Oh, that brings up a long forgotten assignment in a grad school Writing Techniques class wherein I

Re: [Finale] Re: TAN: Brain music

2005-08-01 Thread Bunnydowns
In a message dated 8/1/2005 7:27:11 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Without knowing more details, I also instinctively question what seem to be totally arbitrary criteria for transforming brain waves into "music." That was precisely my concern, John. That the frequency mix