A number of studies, however, show that music therapy can reduce pain, such as a 2001 study on burn patients, whose burns must be frequently scraped to reduce dead tissue. Music therapy may improve mental state and functioning in people with schizophrenia, and communication in children with autistic spectrum disorders, according to Cochrane reviews. Babies, as any parent knows, clearly respond to music. Premature infants who listen to lullabies learn to suck better and gain more weight than those who don’t get music therapy. Deforia Lane, director of music therapy at the University Hospitals Ireland Cancer Centre in Cleveland, has found an improvement in immune response among hospitalised children who played, sang and created music, compared with children who did not get music therapy. Indeed, the list of potential benefits from music therapy seems long.
Questions
1. Burn victims who receive music therapy
2. People with schizophrenia who receive music therapy
3. Autistic children who receive music therapy
4. Premature babies who receive music therapy
5. Hospitalised children who receive music therapy