Music, Brain, and Rehabilitation: Emerging Therapeutic Applications and Potential Neural Mechanisms

• Main Author: Eckart Altenmuller (auth)
• Other Authors: Teppo Sarkamo (auth), Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells (auth), Isabelle Peretz (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; Neuroimaging; Brain; Movement; Music; neurological disorders; Cognition; Rehabilitation
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Music is an important source of enjoyment, learning, and well-being in life as well as a rich, powerful, and versatile stimulus for the brain. With the advance of modern neuroimaging techniques during the past decades, we are now beginning to understand better what goes on in the healthy brain when...