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Active Music Therapy in Parkinson's Disease

Posted on Nov 19, 2009

Active Music Therapy in Parkinson’s Disease: An Integrative Method for Motor
and Emotional Rehabilitation, by Claudio Pacchetti, MD, Francesca Mancini, MD, Roberto Aglieri, Cira Fundaro, MD, Emilia Martignoni, MD, and Giuseppe Nappi, MD

Modern management of Parkinson’s disease (PD) aims to obtain symptom control, to reduce clinical disability, and to improve quality of life. Music acts as a specific stimulus to obtain motor and emotional responses by combining movement and stimulation of different sensory pathways. Here we explore the efficacy of active music
therapy (MT) on motor and emotional functions in patients with PD.

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