Music Therapy explained by the Principles of Neuroplasticity

Abstract

The healing influence of music was talked about and proven long ago. Nowadays, the research done in the field of music therapy shows the benefits obtained with the help of new measuring instruments or new discoveries in neuroscience. Researchers mainly focus on quantifying changes in individual behaviors providing evidence that music therapy is an influential intervention for a variety of clients and a variety of disorders. The aim of this paper is to explain how music therapy works, thus, to find evidence regarding the neurophysiological changes associated with applying music as a therapy through the simple principles of neuroplasticity.