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The funds will support the first research projects of the Sound Health initiative–an NIH-Kennedy Center partnership—to explore the potential of music for treating a wide range of conditions resulting from neurological and other disorders. The National Endowment for the Arts—a federal grant-making entity that funds projects in every Congressional District in America—also contributed to the awards.
“We hope that these in-depth studies of the science behind music’s influence and impact on the brain will bring real understanding of something we know anecdotally — that music is good for you,” said Kennedy Center President Deborah F. Rutter in a statement, adding that she is “eager to hear how the results of these studies support the very real connections between creativity and brain health.”
“The potential is enormous,” said renowned soprano and Kennedy Center Artistic Advisor at Large RenĂ©e Fleming in a statement, “with benefits that range from early childhood development to end of life care, and a host of therapeutic interventions to treat the symptoms of stroke, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, autism, PTSD and pain, to name a few.”
It’s no secret that music therapy works wonders. Numerous studies have confirmed its effects on health. But Sound Health is taking it a huge step forward. Their research aims to advance scientists’ understanding of music’s “mechanism of action” in the brain and how it may be applied more broadly to treat symptoms of disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, stroke, chronic pain and other disorders. The research will also seek to understand the effect of music on the developing brain of children, the NIH reports.
“We know that the beat of a metronome can steady the gait of someone with Parkinson’s disease, for example, but we don’t fully understand how that happens,” said NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. in a statement. “If we can pinpoint in the brain how music therapy works through the use of imaging and biomarkers, the hope is that we can improve its effectiveness and apply it more broadly to improve the lives of millions of people who suffer from neurological and other disorders.”
The effort comes out of a 2017 workshop, wherein the NIH brought together neuroscientists, music therapists and supporters of both biomedical research and the arts to discuss the interaction of music and the brain and how music is already being used as therapy. That workshop was split into three sessions covering the lifespan — “Building:” Music and the Child’s Brain, “Engaging:” Music and the Adult Brain, and “Sustaining:” Music and the Aging Brain, with each session including a panel on fundamental science and therapeutic applications. According to the NIH, recommendations for further research were derived from the workshop that researchers hoped will advance both the fundamental science of music’s interaction with the brain as well as the therapeutic applications of music.
It was also through the 2017 workshops that the NIH developed the Sound Health research plan. According to the NIH, with funding from 10 NIH institutes, centers and offices, Sound Health awardees will:
Sound Health was effectively formed to explore the brain’s relationship with music. A series of Kennedy Center events have been focused on raising awareness of the science of music and its role in health and well-being.
Mary Anne Carter, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, said the Endowment has, through its programs, “gathered and reported evidence on how the arts can be integrated in therapy protocols across a range of medical conditions. We are very excited to see how the Sound Heath initiative applies music to neurological diseases and disorders, and to learn how music affects healthy brain functioning.”
“We are fortunate to live in an exceptional time of discovery in neuroscience, as well as an extraordinary era of creativity in music,” Collins wrote in his September blog. “I am convinced that the power of science holds tremendous promise for improving the effectiveness of music-based interventions and expanding their reach to improve the health and well-being of people suffering from a wide variety of conditions.”
Some of the NIH-funded projects that could help older Americans include:
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