Posts Tagged ‘neurodegenerative disorders’
The Therapeutic Power Of Music
Before the historical and cultural heritage of urban elites, the music was balm and popular entertainment. No doubt they see and so moved the audience who attended last Tuesday at the hall of the Club Diario Levante, the pianist, composer and music therapist Conxita Bentz. Gave lecture – “Music therapy applied to Parkinson’s disease ‘- well documented, faced’ panel and played a collection of original compositions compiled on her albums” Oh! World “and” Dawn of the emotions. ”
No one questions, today, the virtues of music therapy and its effects in patients with neurodegenerative disorders. But it was a result of the experience of a sick relative Parkinson when Bentz made contact with this disease without cure and started his particular research. He talked to neurologists, FROSTS began a collaboration with the Catalan Association for Parkinson’s and developed an entire musical program of therapeutic application.
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Antiepileptic Drugs (AEDs) Could be Used in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
AEDs could be used in the treatment of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, according to a study from Washington University in Missouri (United States) published in the journal Molecular Neurodegeneration.
Researchers have discovered a new mechanism of action of antiepileptic drugs to treat these neurodegenerative disorders. The study shows that neurons in the brain were getting protection after treatment with calcium channel blockers type T, that are commonly used to treat epilepsy.
The calcium signaling mechanisms play a key role in the survival of neurons in the brain. As age increases, you can alter calcium homeostasis in the brain, leading to cognitive and functional decline. This thereby increases the likelihood that chemical compounds capable of modulating calcium homeostasis can protect neurons.