Tests were conducted by researchers at the Boston University School of Medicine showing that patients with Alzheimer's were able to remember new verbal information when having it accompanied by music. The patients that participated in this research were given the lyrics visually to 40 songs. 20 were sung and 20 were spoken. the researchers found that "accuracy was greater in the sung condition than in the spoken condition in AD patients..."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100512112314.htm
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This is a very interesting discovery. I feel music therapy should be used more with alzheImers patients
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