The music therapy for Parkinson′s disease in Nagoya university.

Abstract

We reported approach of the music therapy for Parkinson′s disease in Nagoya university. The music therapy was began from 1999 for project of public health center in Nagoya. With the music therapy, improvement of ADL and stability for mood were obtained in Parkinson′s disease. Therefore we began music therapy in 2008 in cooperation with the association of the Aichi Parkinson disease in Nagoya University. Furthermore, the music therapy with a music CD revealed the improvement of speech articulation and objective acoustic pressure. Recently, we review the effect of music therapy using DVD.