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Hello I Am Currently Developing A Meditation And Using Music

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Posted on Tue, 8 Sep 2020
Question: Hello

I am currently developing a meditation and using music therapy as well for my upcoming website. I need to understand a little bit from a scientific perspective about how music therapy and meditation affect the brain.
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Follow up: Dr. Dr. Erion Spaho (0 minute later)
Hello

I am currently developing a meditation and using music therapy as well for my upcoming website. I need to understand a little bit from a scientific perspective about how music therapy and meditation affect the brain.
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Answered by Dr. Dr. Erion Spaho (6 hours later)
Brief Answer:
Through modulation of attention, emotion, cognition, behavior, etc.

Detailed Answer:
Hello and welcome to "Ask a Doctor" service.

I have read your question.

There are studies suggesting that music therapy and meditation can be an effective nursing intervention in stressful situations for decreasing anxiety, blood pressure, and heart rate.

Clinical research findings show that music and meditation may facilitate a reduction in the stress response, decreased anxiety levels, decreased blood pressure and heart rate, and changes in plasma stress hormone levels.

The proposed mechanisms of action include the modulation of attention, emotion, cognition, behavior, and communication, all these activities of the brain.

There are a number of patients or people suffering from problems such as hypertension/cardiovascular disease, migraine headaches, and gastrointestinal ulcers, mental disorders, after surgeries, etc. that may benefit from such therapies.

Hope you found the answer helpful.

Let me know if I can assist you further.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Vaishalee Punj
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Answered by Dr. Dr. Erion Spaho (0 minute later)
Brief Answer:
Through modulation of attention, emotion, cognition, behavior, etc.

Detailed Answer:
Hello and welcome to "Ask a Doctor" service.

I have read your question.

There are studies suggesting that music therapy and meditation can be an effective nursing intervention in stressful situations for decreasing anxiety, blood pressure, and heart rate.

Clinical research findings show that music and meditation may facilitate a reduction in the stress response, decreased anxiety levels, decreased blood pressure and heart rate, and changes in plasma stress hormone levels.

The proposed mechanisms of action include the modulation of attention, emotion, cognition, behavior, and communication, all these activities of the brain.

There are a number of patients or people suffering from problems such as hypertension/cardiovascular disease, migraine headaches, and gastrointestinal ulcers, mental disorders, after surgeries, etc. that may benefit from such therapies.

Hope you found the answer helpful.

Let me know if I can assist you further.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Vaishalee Punj
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Follow up: Dr. Dr. Erion Spaho (6 hours later)
If I could ask which specific part of the brain gets most affected?
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Follow up: Dr. Dr. Erion Spaho (0 minute later)
If I could ask which specific part of the brain gets most affected?
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Answered by Dr. Dr. Erion Spaho (3 hours later)
Brief Answer:
I would explain as follows.

Detailed Answer:
Welcome back.

Studies have shown increased activity in the areas of the brain including anterior cingulate cortex, frontal cortex, and prefrontal cortex during meditation.

While during music therapy frontotemporal areas are seen to manifest heightened activity.

These areas are responsible for the procession of speech and music.

Hope this helps.

Feel free to ask if you have further questions.


Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Arnab Banerjee
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Answered by Dr. Dr. Erion Spaho (0 minute later)
Brief Answer:
I would explain as follows.

Detailed Answer:
Welcome back.

Studies have shown increased activity in the areas of the brain including anterior cingulate cortex, frontal cortex, and prefrontal cortex during meditation.

While during music therapy frontotemporal areas are seen to manifest heightened activity.

These areas are responsible for the procession of speech and music.

Hope this helps.

Feel free to ask if you have further questions.


Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Arnab Banerjee
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Follow up: Dr. Dr. Erion Spaho (10 hours later)
This clarifies, thanks a bunch. If I were to pinpoint the one common area benefitting from both music therapy and meditation, it would be?
I plan on crafting the series around this hence my need to be specific..
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Follow up: Dr. Dr. Erion Spaho (0 minute later)
This clarifies, thanks a bunch. If I were to pinpoint the one common area benefitting from both music therapy and meditation, it would be?
I plan on crafting the series around this hence my need to be specific..
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Answered by Dr. Dr. Erion Spaho (15 hours later)
Brief Answer:
Frontal cortex is the common area.

Detailed Answer:
Hello again.

The common area modulated by both, music therapy and meditation is the frontal cortex.

It controls important cognitive functions, such as emotional expression, problem-solving, memory, language, judgment, and sexuality.

Hope I helped you.

Take care.


Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Raju A.T
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Answered by Dr. Dr. Erion Spaho (0 minute later)
Brief Answer:
Frontal cortex is the common area.

Detailed Answer:
Hello again.

The common area modulated by both, music therapy and meditation is the frontal cortex.

It controls important cognitive functions, such as emotional expression, problem-solving, memory, language, judgment, and sexuality.

Hope I helped you.

Take care.


Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Raju A.T
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Hello I Am Currently Developing A Meditation And Using Music

Hello I am currently developing a meditation and using music therapy as well for my upcoming website. I need to understand a little bit from a scientific perspective about how music therapy and meditation affect the brain.