20091117

Música e memória - os benefícios dos ... iPod (!!!)




"NEW YORK (WABC) -- Music is proving to be great medicine, and it's helping some patients recover memory loss.
There's a program that uses iPods loaded with a patient's favorite music, and the results are remarkable.
Sean Dawkins had a gunshot wound to the head. He loves Gospel music. Marie Serrano is an amputee with blood vessel disease of the brain. She loves Salsa. Everett Dixon has had a genetically-caused stroke. He loves Reggae.
They all share memory problems. They also share a way to get memory back - their music. Their iPods and a music therapy group at the Beth Abraham Adult Day Health Care Program.
Ariel Weissberg runs the 45-minute group twice a week. Members receive iPods for those days, filled with their favorite music. They play songs for one another. Each responded emotionally to his or her own favorites, but what that triggered was remarkable.
"It brings memories, back on 225th, my mother played this constantly over and over," Dixon said. "She being in Jamaica, this was her uplifting, this was her joy."
"I remember when I was in a wheelchair, and I was mad I couldn't do the things i want to do," Dawkins said.
The music stirred up emotions, linked to memories. It's no surprise that it works.
Meaningful memories are never lost, just difficult to bring to mind because of brain damage or Alzheimer's. A familiar song can trigger those important memories. It can bring patients back to their loved ones and care givers, even if it's for just a moment. Music brings up emotions locked forever to memory.
"I think that the core of who we are is an emotional core, and it's resistant to all the losses of Alzheimer's," said Dr Steven Sparr, a neurologist at Beth Abraham. "Music provides a portal into that emotional core."
Experts say that with modern brain imaging, they can actually see that music memories are stored all over the brain, not in just one area. There are studies showing that memories brought back with music can slow the progression,and even improve some types of memory loss."


WEB PRODUCED BY: Bill King
Fonte: ABC 7 SOCIAL NETWORKING


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20091109

"Bebés choram na sua língua materna"

2009-11-07


"Desengane-se quem pensava que os todos os bebés choravam da mesma forma. Um estudo da Universidade de Würzburg revela que, na verdade, os bebés choram na sua língua materna. Os investigadores analisaram o choro de 60 recém-nascidos, metade de famílias de língua francesa e outra metade alemã, entre três e cinco dias depois do seu nascimento e chegaram à conclusão de que os bebés captam elementos do que será o seu idioma ainda na barriga da mãe. O estudo está publicado na «Current Biology».

A antropóloga Kathleen Wermke, uma das investigadoras, explica que os recém-nascidos “não só são capazes de reproduzir tonalidades sonoras distintas quando choram como também utilizam as ‘pautas’ típicas do idioma que ouviram no último trimestre da gestação”. As investigações realçam assim a importância do choro no desenvolvimento da linguagem.

Na experiência verificou-se que os bebés franceses tinham tendência para chorar num tom ascendente enquanto os alemães num tom descendente. Esta é uma característica que diferencia as duas línguas.

Já se sabia que a exposição ao idioma antes do nascimento tinha influência na percepção dos recém-nascidos. Contudo, pensava-se que os efeitos na pronunciação de sons aconteciam muito mais tarde.

O estudo acrescenta que os recém-nascidos percebem o conteúdo emocional das mensagens da mãe pela entoação e sentem uma forte motivação para a imitar, tendo como finalidade a criação de laços afectivos. De resto, a entoação da mãe é o único aspecto da linguagem que conseguem imitar.

Artigo: Newborns' Cry Melody Is Shaped by Their Native Language" (Ciência Hoje)

20091106

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