According to Plato, music ‘gives wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything’. Can it help people with dementia?
Personalised music therapy may offer a nonpharmacological way to treat dementia. So why would music therapy be effective? Our musical memories are some of the deepest and last to be lost. Music activates the brain and causes whole regions to communicate with each other.
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