Cerebral Circulation in Music Exercise Therapy

Title

Cerebral Circulation of Consciousness Disorder Patient using near-infrared spectroscopic topography during brain rehabilitation by music exercise therapy

Abstract

For the purpose of brain activation and regeneration of the consciousness disorder patient, the clinical effect of music exercise therapy, which used the practical music performance jointly on the trampoline moving patient, was scientifically verified. The mapping of the cerebral cortex circulation examined by light topography was derived from the time-dependent measurement of blood hemoglobin (oxy-hemoglobin and deoxy-hemoglobin) at 24 areas of right and left cerebral cortex by the near-infrared radiation spectroscopy, and the value was carried out. It was compared with four different types of music and during the trampoline movement.

In the case of a normal person being the control, the right cerebral cortex mainly reacted, and it greatly reacted to the music number, which was especially well known. The significance of the brain rehabilitation by music exercise therapy has proven, especially in the case of the consciousness disorder patient, that the trampoline upward and downward motion appealed to the disordered side of the brain, and the reaction was remarkable. The repetition of the music exercise therapy was effective for the prolonged consciousness disorder patient with lesion of the brain, and it is certain that the rehabilitation by music-exercise therapy will promote the regeneration of brain function and/or autonomic nervous function.

Authors

Yukio Goto, Ryo Noda, Noriyoshi Ichikawa, Michijuki Fujiwara

Citation

Goto, Y., Noda, R., Ichikawa, N., & Fujiwara, M. (2002). Cerebral circulation of consciousness disorder patient using near-infrared spectroscopic topography during brain rehabilitation by music exercise therapy. International Congress Series, 1232, 549-554.