The Tremble Clefs’ guitarist Bill Wood.
How can Buard see those pathways? In her study, she uses a brain scan called magnetoencephalography (MEG) to measure brain activity in people with Parkinson’s as they lie on a bed and tap their fingers to rhythms. Then, participants take 15 sessions of guided neurologic music therapy, and they practice fine motor skills by playing the keyboard and castanets. After five weeks, they return to Buard’s lab for another brain scan to measure whether their brain activity has changed (she’s still collecting data for the study).
“Music has such a powerful effect on the body and brain that we need to understand it better,” she says.
The Tremble Clefs’ guitarist, Bill Wood, says he didn’t think he’d play again after his Parkinson’s diagnosis five years ago. But medications helped relieve his tremors and he recently switched to a smaller guitar to make playing easier. Wood, 81, is no stranger to music, once recording with Joan Baez before a long career as a molecular biologist at the University of Colorado Boulder.
We have a good time, says Wood of playing guitar and singing with the Tremble Clefs: “It just feels good.”
Paul Zeiger, 83, wears a plaid shirt and has soft hazel eyes behind his small glasses. He grew up singing in a Lutheran church and playing the trombone in bands. “I’ve always loved music and now it has a specific effect to ameliorate the symptoms of Parkinson’s,” he says. Zeiger was an electrical engineer and chairman of the computer science department at the University of Colorado Boulder.
“Singing brings me in an upward direction,” says Zeiger of his rehearsals with the Tremble Clefs. “These folks sing as well as any group, but they have more skin in the game.”
If You Go: The public is welcome at the Tremble Clefs’ free concert at 2 p.m. on Saturday, December 14 at Frasier in Boulder.
https://www.5280.com/2019/11/a-local-singing-group-is-helping-patients-with-parkinsons-find-their-voices/
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