Music and Disorders of Consciousness: Emerging Research, Practice and Theory

• Main Author: Barbara Tillmann (auth)
• Other Authors: Wendy L. Magee (auth), Fabien Perrin (auth), Caroline Schnakers (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; disorders of consciousness; Coma; sensory stimulation; Brain Injury; Minimally Conscious State; Music; Music Therapy; Arousal; Rehabilitation; vegetative state
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Music processing in severely brain-injured patients with disorders of consciousness has been an emergent field of interest for over 30 years, spanning the disciplines of neuroscience, medicine, the arts and humanities. Disorders of consciousness (DOC) is an umbrella term that encompasses patients wh...