{"id":78137,"date":"2018-04-30T08:42:15","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T15:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/brain-imaging-show-that-patients-with-alzheimers-disease-can-still-remember-and-enjoy-their-favorite-songs"},"modified":"2018-04-30T08:42:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T15:42:15","slug":"brain-imaging-show-that-patients-with-alzheimers-disease-can-still-remember-and-enjoy-their-favorite-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/brain-imaging-show-that-patients-with-alzheimers-disease-can-still-remember-and-enjoy-their-favorite-songs","title":{"rendered":"Brain imaging show that patients with Alzheimer\u2019s disease can still remember and enjoy their favorite songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-imaging-show-that-patients-with-alzheimers-disease-can-still-remember-and-enjoy-their-favorite-songs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not surprising and yet fascinating to actually see \u2014 \u201cThe researchers found that music activates the brain, causing whole regions to communicate. By listening to the personal soundtrack, the visual network, the salience network, the executive network and the cerebellar and corticocerebellar network pairs all showed significantly higher functional connectivity.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cEver get chills lis\u00adten\u00ading to a par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly mov\u00ading piece of music? You can thank the salience net\u00adwork of the brain for that emo\u00adtion\u00adal joint. Sur\u00adpris\u00ading\u00adly, this region also remains an island of remem\u00adbrance that is spared from the rav\u00adages of Alzheimer\u2019s dis\u00adease. Researchers at the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Utah Health are look\u00ading to this region of the brain to devel\u00adop music-based treat\u00adments to help alle\u00advi\u00adate anx\u00adi\u00adety in patients with demen\u00adtia. Their research will appear in the April online issue of The Jour\u00adnal of Pre\u00adven\u00adtion of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease\u2026<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/sharpbrains.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/30\/brain-imaging-show-that-patients-with-alzheimers-disease-can-still-remember-and-enjoy-their-favorite-songs\/\">https:\/\/sharpbrains.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/30\/brain-imaging-show-t...ite-songs\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not surprising and yet fascinating to actually see \u2014 \u201cThe researchers found that music activates the brain, causing whole regions to communicate. By listening to the personal soundtrack, the visual network, the salience network, the executive network and the cerebellar and corticocerebellar network pairs all showed significantly higher functional connectivity.\u201d \u201cEver get chills lis\u00adten\u00ading to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,42,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-media-arts","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}