Cure stroke by singing - simple but effective

At the conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on February 20, Harvard Medical School neurologist Gottfried Schlaug said that a simple stroke treatment was discovered. effect, that is by singing songs.

Singing can help stroke patients speak.

According to Gottfried Schlaug, an interdisciplinary professor of neurology at Beth Israel Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, US stroke patients are affected in the left hemisphere so they cannot speak normally, but can sing .

At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on February 20, Professor Schlaug showed a video showing a stroke patient unable to read the words in the birthday song " Happy birthday to you "and only recalled the letters N and O, but when asked to sing this song, the patient sang very clearly with the fist clinging to the rhythm of the people around.

Scientists also give evidence that stroke treatment is very effective, even for patients who have been practicing for years but cannot speak.

According to experts, brain scans of stroke patients show that there has been "structural and functional changes" in the right hemisphere after they have been tested with vocal therapy, called music sensory therapy (MIT).

According to Professor Schlaug, MIT can help 70,000 stroke patients come back.